i li "4 Published Weekly. VOL. 10. GRAND RAPIDS, THE TRADESMAN COMPANY, PUBLISHERS. Michigan Tradesman. $1 Per Year. OCTOBER 6 5, » 1892. ” MUSKEGON BRANOH UNITED STATES BAKING co., Successors to MUSKEGON CRACKER Co., HARRY FOX, Manager. Crackers, Biscuits # Sweet Goods. MUSKEGON, MICH. SPECIAL ATTENTION PAID TO MAIL ORDERS. . BEANS W. T. LAMOREAUX CO,, 128, 130 and 132 W. Bridge St., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. 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. Julius Berkey, Pres. S. S. Gay, Vice-Pres. Wm. McBain, Sec’y. J.D. M. Shirts, Treas. Grand Rapids Brush Co., | Manufacturers of BRUSHES GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Our goods are sold by all Michigan Jobbing Houses. AMERICAN Wisconsin, Ohio and Michigan make, IMPORTED Limburger, Swiss, Fromage de Brie, D’ Isigny, Camembert, Neufehatel and Caprera. Also our X XXX Orchard. 45 South Division St., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. V | N EG j \ | { WRITE FOR PRICES ON CHEESE » H.E. MOSELEY &CO. “~ See Quotations, /h | nea ce The Green Seal Cigar Is the Most Desirable for Merchants to Handle because It is Staple and will fit any Purchaser. Retails for 10 cents, 3.for 25 cents. Send Your Wholesaler an Order. Don’t Forget when ordering DATES, ETC NUTS, FIGS, FIGS, To call on or address A. E. BROOKS & C0., Mfrs, 46 Ottawa St., Grand Rapids. Special pains taken with fruit orders. (= RAFF & CQ. 9 North Ionia St., Grand Rapids. WHOLESALE =FRUITS AND PRODUGE. Mail Orders Receive Prompt Attention. NO BRAND OF TEN CENT ~ CIGARS G. F. FAUDE, Sole Manufacturer, IONIA, MICH. COMPARES WITH THE Our Fall Lines of Oil Cloths, Carpets and Gurtains Now ready. SMITH & SANFORD, 68 Monroe St. Write for prices. (fui F GS SS. BROWN, JOBBER OF Foreign and Domestic Fruits and \egetables. Oranges, Bananas and Karly Vegetables a Specialty. 24-26 No. Division St. Send for quotations. TELFER SPICE COMPANY, MANUFACTURERS OF Spices and Baking Powder, and Jobbers of Teas, Coffees and Grocers’ Sundries. 1! and 3 Pearl Street, GRAND RAPIDS | J. L. Strelitsky, — tatwanginesotiowing ceronrazea brands, men. Frame & Co.: t WVindex, long Havana filler............ ... #35 Three Medals, long Havana filler ...... 35 Elk’s Choice, Havana filler and binder... 55 La Flor de Alfonso,.. ... .......... : 55 Jabber of Ee Donewiin do Morerk, ............:.... 65 ee 55 Madellena eee ee aces 60 eet ee Se cs lo. 35 10 80, lonia St, Grand Rapids, MOSELEY BROS., - WHOLESALE - FRUITS, S&KUS, BRANS AND PRODUGE, 26, 28, 30 & 32 OTTAWA ST, Grand Rapids, Micn. J. DETTENTHALER JOBBER OF OYSTERS SALT FISH POULTRY & GAME & Mail Orders Receive Prompt Attention. See quotations in another column CONSIGNMENTS OF ALL KINDS OF POULTRY AND GAME SOLICITED STANDARD OIL CO. GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN. DEALERS IN Iiiuminating and Lubricating -OLlLS- NAPTHA AND GASOLINES. Office, 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. RINDGE, KALMBACH & (0, 12,14, & 16 PEARL ST. Fall Season 1892. FACTORY GOODS. JOBBING GOODS. we know will be satisfactory. We never had so nice a line of shoes, slippers WARM GOOD « and buskins, also feit boots and socks. RUBBER GOODS. If you want the best wearing quali- ties, we make them. We carry a full line and can show you all the novelties of the season at prices We sell the best, the Boston Rubber Shoe Co.’s. Satisfaction guaranteed. Heyman cx OER ey a —— i : Chow Cases e - ao First-Class Work Only. a Of Every Description. WRITE FOR PRICES. 63 and 65 Canal St.. - GRAND RAPIDS. Who urges you to keep Sapolio’? 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 & WHEELER COMPANY, IMPORTERS AND Wholesale Grocers GRAND RAPIDS. New Prints Received in all the Best Well Known Brands. Also Fine Line of Robes OUTINGS, WIDE BLUES, FANCY SHIRTINGS, DRESS GINGHAMS, SATINES. Dress Goods IN CHEVRONS, WHIPCORDS, STORM SERGE EFFECTS. Yarns, Blankets, Comforts, Underwear. Overshirts, Pants and Overalls. Correspondence receives our Personal Attention. BEDFORD CORDS, P. STEKETEE & SON. j \ VOL. 10. sl FIRE INS. 1? Co. PROMPT, CONSERVATIVE, SAFE. T. Stewart Wurre, Pres't. W. Frep McBain. Sec’y nde ae Solid Brand Cans. evesce 28 QW 4. 2 Daisy Brand. Se ea. 8 26 Sa 18 Oe 16 Mrs. Withey’ 8 : Home-Made Mince — ee, =a pails i 64 i 6% ae... 63 21b cans, usual weight, per doz ee $1 50 ll Sl lee ee 3 50 Cceice eaiey tices. Pure Sweet ides ta be, 16 Vinee. 10 Choice Lemons, 300 and 360 . New Pickles in bbls, 1200....... ' half bbls, ce The — prices are made low to bid for e. Let your orders come, EDWIN FALLAS, Prop’r of Valley City Cold Storage 215-217 Livingston St., Grand Rapids. ESTABLISHED 1841. TS THE MERCANTILE AGENCY R.G. Dun & Co. Reference Books issued quarterly. Collections attended to throughout United States and Canada OUR NEW LINE OF Tablets, Fall Specialties School Supplies ts,, ARE NOW BEING SHOWN ON THE ROAD BY MR. J. L. KYMER, OF OUR FIRM. GEO. H. RAYNOR, WALTER B. DUDLEY, CHAS. E. WATSON, PETER LUBACH. EATON, LYON & CO. COMMERCIAL CREDIT 60. 65 MONROE ST. Formed by the consolidation of the COOPER COMMERCIAL AGENCY, AND THE UNION CREDIT CO., And embodying all the good features of both agencies. Commercial reports and current collections receive prompt and careful attention. Your patronage respectfully solicited. Telephones 166 and 1030. L. J. STEVENSON, Cc. A. CUMINGS, Cc. E. BLOCK. MR. MR. MR. MR. AES OST SW VL elt t) = eraleacageveaa ic sacn| Senp FOR PRICES GRAND RAPIDS,MICH. nue S. A. MORMAN, WHOLESALE Petoskey, Marble- LjilM#B; ’ head and Ohio Akron, Buffalo and Louisville CHMEN TS, Stucco and Hair, Sewer Pipe, FIRE BRICK AND CLAY. Write for Prices. 10 LYON ST., - GRAND RAPIDS. DO NOT FAIL TO VISIT BELKNAP, BAKER & GO. kxelvsive Carriage Repository AND INSPECT THEIR LINE OF Carriages, Surreys, Phaetons, 2 Buggies. 5 & 7 N. IONIA ST., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. The Bradstreet Mercantile Agency. The Bradstreet Company, Props. Executive Offices, 279, 281, 283 Broadway, N.Y CHARLES F. CLARK, Pres, Offices in cos Cities of the United States, Canada, the European continent, Australia, and in London, — Grand Rapids Office, Room 4, Widdieomb Bldg. HENRY ROYCE, Supt. FRANK H. WHITE, Manufacturer’s Agent and Jobber of Brooms, Washboards, Wooden AND Indurated Pails & Tubs, Wooden 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 represeuted in this market are request- ed to communicate with me. 125 COURT ST., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. A. J, SHELLMAN, Scientific Optician, 65 Monroe Street. Eyes tested for spectacles free of cost with latest improved methods. Glasses in every style at moderate prices. Artificial human eyes of every color. Sign of big spectacles. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. _GRAND concen WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1892. JOHNSON’S FORTUNE. “T’ve done my best, mother,” Farmer Hobbs said, coming in hot and tired from the hay-field. ‘‘That there dratted machine won’t work, and ef I am to save my hay, Pll have to take that intrust money and buy a new machine.’’ ‘I think you’d better not, father,” Mrs. Hobbs answered, in mild alarm. ‘I don’t know where you're goin’ to get any more, and Johnson is powerful clost about gettin’ the money on time. I’d be afeard to let it run over a minute.”’ “Well, but, Lucindy, the hay’s wuth more’n the intrust, and you know they’s no takin’ the stock through the winter without it. The cattle might kinder rub along, but the horses is jist plum obleeged to have their timothy, and my timothy is as fine a piece as you ever sot eyes on.”’ “Suppose you try again,’’ Mrs. Hobbs suggested, helping her hasband to a luscious quarter of raspberry pie. ‘Ill go out with you and help onchoke her, and we’ll use plenty of ile, and mebbe you can rub through jest this oncet.’’ “Well, Pll try, Lucindy; I hain’t no hopes, but I would like to save that in- trust money.” Mrs. Hobbs stayed in the field till five o’clock, and the hay was cut with few delays. The girls brought out the sup- per, which was eaten with much relishin the hayfield. The horses being watered and fed, the work went on by the big harvest moon, and at ten o’clock the hay from the ‘*big medder’’ was in the stacks. A few days after, Jim Johnson came out to see if the interest money was ready. He tied his horse under a tree and started through the meadow to see Mr. Hobbs, who was fencing his ricks at the other side. ‘*Moses and the bullrushes! What’s that??? he asked, gazing at glinty blue reflections floating on pools of water standing everywhere, for it had rained heavily the night before. ‘‘Oil, and no mistake!’’ he went on, after dipping his finger into a puddle and testing it care- fully with his nose. It was only the day before that the papers had contained an account of some new oil-fields found not above twenty miles away; an old partner of Jim had been the first to invest, and was, conse- quently, fabulously rich. Johnson carefully rubbed his finger on his pocket handkerchief, stowed the lat- ter in adeep pocket and hastened across the field, his face pale and his eyes glit- tering very unpleasantly. He tried to greet the farmer with his accustomed familiarity, but his words came by jerks and in gusts, and his throat became so dry that he could scarcely articulate. ‘‘What’s the matter? Hain’t you well?” Mr. Hobbs asked, suspending his work to gaze curiously at his visitor. ‘‘You look taller-colored as the dead, an’ your eyes is like burnt holes in a blanket.” ‘“‘No, thank you, not at all,” Johnson replied atrandom. ‘‘I’m quite well, ex- cept husky sore throat—are you well? And the family?’ “Pretty fair—we’ve got a good deal of health mixed up amongst us—you know they’s twelve all told.”’ “Yes, a large, interesting family—want to sell the farm?” He tried to make the question less eager, but he could not quiet the tremor in his voice, and he was in mortal dread lest Mr. Hobbs should have some reason to cross the field and see the oil, when his ‘‘cake would be dough,” as he mental- ly expressed it. ‘‘No,” Mr. Hobbs replied, shortly, and went on with his work. “Pll give you agood price for it—I want it for a combination shoe factory. Set a figger.’’ ‘Well, twelve thousand—a thousand apiece,” said Mr. Hobbs, jokingly; the farm was not worth more than a third of that sum. “Pll take it,’? with agasp. ‘‘Here’s fifty to bind the bargain, and [’1l fill out a check for the balance right here.” He did so, and handed the paper to Mr. Hobbs, who kept his countenance and received it with perfect gravity. Privately he was convinced that Johnson was crazy. ‘“‘Come to the house and sign the con- tract for the deed.”’ ‘CAll right.” Mr. and Mrs. Hobbs accompanied Johnson to town, and were thunderstruck when they learned that the sale was real, and that they had twelve thousand dol- lars in the bank. ‘Sense that Johnson hain’t crazy,” Hobbs began as soon as he was clear of the town, ‘*why, they’s somethin’ in the wind. It may be ashoe factory, but I don’t believe it. I wonder ef they’ve found gold?” ‘*It don’t make no sort o’ defference to us, father,’? Mrs. Hobbs answered. She was afraid that her husband would take alarm and want to‘‘rue back,” as she ex- pressed it. ‘*‘No, it don’t make a grain o’ defference to us, an’ we’ve got enough for the place ef they find dimints. I never did like it, an’ I don’t keer how soon we git away. Let’s buy back our six acres on the edge of Cloverdale. We can git it for three thousand, an’ then you’ll have nine thousand to put out at intrust.” “Yes, mother.’’ ‘‘And we kin git little Jim his cornet and send him off to be learnt to play.” ‘You kin do jist as you please, mother. Vm rich enough now, I reckin, to do as I like, and l hope I won’t never want to do nothin’ very bad.” ‘“‘That’s somethin’ you never did do, father,’’ dutifully replied his wife, ‘‘and I don’t believe bein’ rich is a-goin’ to change you much. If it would ’d want somethin’ to come along and take the money away from us, because it can’t never pay to give up doin’ good.” As soon as the transfer was made and the deed recorded, Johnson sent the fol- lowing telegram to his whilom partner: *““Come on—bring all your loose cash— oil in abundance.” The cash was sent to buy adjoining farms on option of thirty days; the oil 2 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. man would come later on and bring an expert. The farms were bargained for at ri- diculously low figures, and then Johnson invited his friends out to see his ‘‘find.” “I tell you, boys,’’ said he, as he rode up and tied his horse to the meadow fence, ‘‘the whole earth is jist a soakin’ with it, and it’s jist burstin’ out of the ground. You see, thiscountry has never had any oil taken out of it,’’ he went on, glibly, ‘‘and as it is constantly generat- ing, it has become so choke full that the ground can’t hold it and it’s compelled to come out. You’d be astonished to see how it is actually boiling up.”’ “It must be wasting if it is in that condition,” some one remarked. “What's a waste of a few millions 0’ barrels?” scornfully retorted Johnson. “There’s enough left for me and my family and all my poor relations.”’ By this time others, having heard the news, had arrived at the farm, and quite a crowd had gathered when the partner with the expert drove up, followed by Mr. Hobbs. “Just wait until you examine these blue patches,” Johnson said to the two men after they had alighted from their buggy. ‘Now, tell me if you ever sawa surer indication of oil?’’ The expert gave a glance over the field, took a quick survey of the con- formation of the country, and opened his lips to speak; but, before he could ar- ticulate a word, Mr. Hobbs broke into the conversation with a remark that sent the cold chills down Johnson’s spine. ‘“‘And is it them blue patches that in- dicate ile?” he asked, with a glance, half pitying, half contemptuous. ‘*That’s a fact, for 1 used mor’n two gallon on my ole mowin’ machine, a-tryin’ to git through the season without buyin’ a new one.”’ ‘‘Let this be a lesson to you, sir,’’ said Johnson’s partner. “All the lesson I git out of it,’’ again put in Mr. Hobbs, ‘‘is that when you are a-cuttin’ hay use plenty of ile.” “It?s a—swindle!” Johnson broke out, livid with rage. ‘‘And Pll land you in the pen before this is over.’’ “Don’t talk to me about swindling,” Mr. Hobbs began, advancing upon John- son, who retreated to his buggy. ‘‘Who was it swindled the Widow Robinson out of her property and drove her to commit suicide? Who was it that swindled the people out of their taxes and barely missed the pen? Who was it that swindled—” Johnson gave his horse a lash with the whip and drove rapidly away. “T didn’t know nothin’ about this ile business until this mornin’,’’ Mr. Hobbs explained to the people present. ‘‘I knowed they was somethin’ up, but L had no idy what it was, for I supposed every blamed fool in the country would know machine-ile on a medder after a rain.”’ —_——_—__—~<>>-+o-<——_—_—_—_— The Only King on American Soil. Vannant in the Office. It is very frequently our boast that we live in a republic and that ours isa Gov- ernment of the people, by the people and for the people. We look upon the mon- archial systems of the Old World as some- thing that we have most happily escaped, and we pride ourselves upon being better off than other nations. Our liberty is our boast, and the right of every man to “life, liberty and the pursuit of happi- ness”? is something that is taught each child at school, and yet we are perpet- ually doing something quite opposed to this. If we are a workingman, we forth- with join a union and in so doing agree to submit ourselves to the dictation of the ‘‘prudential committee,” or the orders of the walking delegate, or to the whims of the grand master, or the high muck-a- muck, or whatever other name our king and ruler receives. Then, when a strike is ordered, which is the special reason for which the king was chosen, we act not as free-born American citizens, but as the slaves and vassals of a petty lord, and at once proceed to do things under his orders which we would never think of doing if left to ourselves, We glory in our king and gladly de- mean ourselves at his behest. We burn buildings, we destroy property, we even take life, because the king orders it, and when we are called up and taken to task for our evil deeds we say in defense, “The king commanded.” We not only refuse to work for our employers when the king bids us stop, but at his command we also refuse to let others work. Even though we are getting good wages, better wages than many of our fellow men equally competent and of the same ex- perience, and putting forth the same amount of exertion as ourselves, we not only leave the job, but we refuse to let some poor, half-starving man, quite as worthy as we are, take our place at the price which we decline. At the com- mand of our king we play dog in the manger. We will neither do the thing ourselves nor allow others to do it. Could there be greater inconsistency? Could citizens of a republic make bigger fools of themselves if they tried? It may be urged that it is not citizens of a Re- public or native born Americans that are making all this labor trouble, but rather that it is the foreign element among us. Even so, yet without the assent or ac- quiescence of voting Americans the thing could not continue. Without the ap- proval of a considerable number in every cummunity the abuses of strikes and the absurdities and inconsistences of unions would disappear. If an individual work- man becomes dissatisfied with his job, throws up his position and takes the ground that he will allow no one else to do the work, if he commits an assault upon any one who attempts to work in his stead, and, further, if he proceeds to de- stroy property, he is seized by the officers of the law and made to feel that he has committed a crime, and is properly pun- ished for the same. But our little king, our grand master, our walking delegate, our high muck-a-muck, call him what we may, who directs the actions of 100 or 1,000 of us, who lives upon the funds which we contribute, who stops at hotels where his daily expenses are twice what he ever earned as a mechanic or laboring man, issues orders. At his behest our union goes on strike, ‘‘scab” labor that offers to take our places is waylaid, and either under orders or by tacit approval we commit violence, and in some directions, by our actions or by our neglect, property is destroyed, commerce is interrupted. Yet our little king goes free, and we pose as martyrs and heroes, not aslaw break- ers as we are. Why is his kingship tolorated in free America? Why does the walking delegate, after he has done ail these evil things, go free, and why do we who obey his orders very generally escape responsi- bility for our crimes? As it is, however, we are far oftener arraigned than our king. Why is a man less responsible be- fore the law for directing asmall army of men that are working mischief than a single manin carrying on the mischief on his own account? The king is dead, long live the king! A king we must have, and the king we now have is King Walk- ing Delegate. —- -—~< -9- <> - A Florida Sugar Plantation. A dispatch from Cincinnati says that a party of capitalists from that city, Phila- delphia and New York has secured pos- session of a tract of land along the St. Johns and Indian rivers, eighty-three miles long and from three to six miles wide. The land ‘‘is to be drained at an expense of $4,000,000,’ and devoted to the cultivation of sugar, ‘‘enough of which can be grown on the strip to sup- ply all of the United States.”’ This is ‘‘important if true.’’ The Standard Cash Register (Patented in United States and Canada.) ts a practical Machine, Appreciated by Practical Business Men, It}is a handsomely furnished Combination Desk, Money Drawer and Cashier, with Com- bination Lock and R- gistering Attachment. It records both cash and credit sales. It records disbursements. It itemizes money paid in on account. It enables you to trace transactions in dispute. [t will keep different lines of goods separate. It shows the transactions of each clerk. It makes a careless man careful. It keeps an honest man honest and a thief will not stay where it is. It will save in convenience, time and money, enough to pay for itse.f many times over. Each machine, boxed separately and warrant- ed for two years. 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It is true that several years have been spent in idle dreaming and vague speculation since the first move made by Congress toward making Grand River a waterway between the Valley City and Grand Ha- ven, but the time is surely coming when Grand Rapids will be a lake port. This is no visionary scheme, but a prac- ticable improvement that is entirely at- tainable. Because one man may not be able to move a 600-pound rock is no evi- dence that the rock is immovable. The removal of the rock would, indeed, be a visionary scheme so far as the applica- tion of a one-man power is concerned, but, when seized by a half dozen deter- mined men, every difficulty vanishes and the work is easily accomplished. It is the same in this matter of bringing our lake vessels into Grand Rapids; it can be done, and, when compared with like achievements elsewhere, it can be done inexpensively. The trade of numerous ports is con- ducted with eight and ten feet of water, and side-wheel vessels are abundantly able to carry heavy cargoes on a Six or seven, or even a five-foot draft. The Erie Canal has seven feet, and the Can- adian canals were built for four and four and a half feet, and later deepened to nine feet; and no one questions the compensating value of these waterways in the movement of heavy freights, the marketing of products or the reduction of the cost of transportation, although they cost millions of dollars. The Ohio River improvement is based on a navi- gable draft of seven feet, at a cost of nearly $70,000,000, and the Great Kanawha improvement is based on securing a draft of six or seven feet for a distance of ninety-six miles, at an estimated cost of $3,000,000. Five feet is wanted for one hundred miles of the Elk River; four feet in the Fox and Wisconsin Rivers, while the Cumberland and others are striving with an expenditure of millions to get three feet. The American people are intensely alive to the great importance of water communication, and rivers and streams are being improved all over the Union, on a navigable basis ranging from three to ten feet, and at a cost involving mil- lions of dollars. Now, what is the condition of things here? The Supreme Court of the United States has adjudicated on this question of the navigation of Grand River, and held that it was a navigable water of the United States, from its mouth to Grand Rapids, a distance of forty miles, and capable of bearing for that distance a steamer of 123 tons burden, laden with merchandise and passengers, and forming by its junction with the lake a continued highway for commerce both with other states and with foreign countries. At low water mark there is a depth of water of from twenty-four feet at the harbor to four feet at this end, with, of course, a few intervening sand bars. At the head of this navigation is located the metrop- olis and great distributing trade center of West Michigan and the second city in importance in the State; a city with 80,000 population and a probability, based upon the past three decades of its growth, of having 125,000 before the close of the present decade; a city that is pre-emi- nently a manufacturing center, having 950 manufacturing establishments of all descriptions, and producing goods to the value of $28,842,468 annually; a city uni- versally acknowleded to be the furniture center of the world; a city with $4,000,- 0v0 invested in jobbing houses, many of which are importers; a city which, in 1889, furnished the railroads and one small river steamer a combined tonnage of 1,120,823 tons! Atthe rate of increase in the tonnage since 1889, it is safe to predict that the average annual tonnage for the next ten years will be 2,300,000. Will anyone assert that, were it possible to move this vast tonnage by water, the rates would not be lessened? And, if it were but 1 per cent. on 100 pounds, it would represent a saving of freight alone of $460,000 per annum. And this is not all. Grand Rapids is rapidly becoming a great fruit emporium, and growers and dealers are waking up tothe fact that water transportation is absolutely neces- sary in shipping this ever-increasing ton- nage of Grand River Valley fruits to the markets on the west side of Lake Michi- gan, in order to successfully compete with the growers on the lake shore. Are the manufacturers and jobbers of Grand Rapids to continue to compete with the lake towns? Will the Valley City maintain her proud position of being the great distributing center of West Michigan? Is Grand Rapids to keep on using 28,000,000 feet of hardwood lumber annually, in her manufactories, shipped from northern points? Is the jobbing trade of Grand Rapids, which amounts to about $20,000,000 annually, to go on increasing its volume in the future as in the past, and will our jobbers be able to compete with Chicago and Detroit for the northern trade which is springing up and constantly increasing around the shores of our northern waters? An af- firmative answer to these queries means the arrival of lake vessels alongside of the docks in the Port of Grand Rapids. Is this practicably attainable? It is, and the next article on this subject will dem- onstrate it. E. A. OWEN. _ om er The Disgrace of Pinkertonism. From Iron Trade Review. There has been much said and written in the last four weeks about the disgrace of Pinkertonism. Reference has been had in this verdict to the character of the Pinkerton system and of the Pinkerton guards. Butthere is another disgrace that ought to be emphasized in this con- nection—the disgrace of a condition of things that requires the importation of dare-devil men to secure rights which local authorities do not guarantee. It is disgraceful that men cannot be secured in the possession of their own property, disgraceful that men cannot goto work except at the risk of their lives in an es- tablishment from which others have voluntarily withdrawn. It would be well for those who join in the general cry against Pinkertonism to have a serious thought or two about the disgraces that are the occasion of Pinkertonism. > Pure Nickel for Coins. It is said that the Austrian Empire is likely to adopt pure nickel as the mate- rial for itssmaller coins. The alloy com- monly in use contains but 25 per cent. of nickel and 75 per cent. of copper. It is easier worked than pure nickel, but the latter, despite its hardness, can easily be coined, and possesses many advantages over the alloy. Itis extraordinarily dura- ble, loses almost nothing by wear and tear, keeps clean in circulation, and does not rust to any appreciable extent. ———————.].___— Use Tradesman Coupon Books. Merchants of Michigan: WILL YOU PLEASE GIVE US TEMPORARY CUSTODY OF YOUR AURICULAR APPEN- DAGE? WE ARE NOW QUOTING Du Pont Rifle — 2g ez J ee ee 4 2 es o att . ans poke 80% “7 ‘ wale Lea AS FOLLOWS: astats st OY wre % aiiii'y S51 Rees, fe o.3.. 8.) 12... $4 50 ta? LEDUCe, @ Ce ee ee i a 2 50 Not ? In, 6, Ib: wees, Ge... 2... -8- 8... 1 33 e to. cans.) 30 “ne? 4s Ce ee eeu 18 eanay eo No brand of powder to-day that stands equal to wise mete Koy oF h02 ly DU PONT RIFLE. jv, > a It always burns strong and moist. Used by the Amer- HO ican Rifle Team in all their successful contests for %e9, ee the championship of the world. Always specify Du Pont whenever you order powder, and if your dealer will not getit for you, send to us direct. & CG: MONROR ST. BARCUS BROS., MANUFACTURERS OF CIRCULAR prasren TEVENS Equalled by few skillful workmen, and all saws warranted. Burnt saws made good as new for one-fourth the and excelled by none. All our saws are made of the best steel by the most All kinds of SAW REPAIRING Done as cheap as can be done consistent with good work. Lumber saws fitted up ready for use without extra charge. No charge for boxing or drayage. Write for prices and discounts. MUSKEGON, - MICHIGAN. list price of new saws. mi THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. * e AMONG THE TRADE. ness will be continued by E. Jossman, | run on an average about 90 feet in length, | FOR SALE, WANTED, ETC. AROUND THE STATE. under the old style. and varying in size at the top from 12 to | Advertisements will be inserted under this Detroit—A receiver has been applied] Detroit—S. Simon & Co. have brought | 20 inches in diameter, and which are | het2 for two ents 8 word the frst Insertion and = for the Detroit Chicory Co. suit for $10,000 against Schloss, Adler & | worth, at the lowest calculation, $100 | re advertisements taken for less than 25 cents, 1 i | _ Advane yment. Alamo—Pickard & Co. are succeeded Co. When the two firms went into ihe | caek, in the water here. These spars | eon i o by W. R. Maltby in general trade. Bagley building, the latter drew the cor- | were for the use of a shipyard firm in | BUSINESS CHANCES. " > 7 > ; + y na sii ‘ihe sccaneneeeseeesanenean ——— Pontiac—Chas. Thorpe, butcher, has | 2€ store, with the understanding that | Milwaukee. OR SALE OR WILL EXCHANGE FOR «< sold his business to Asa. Seeley. _| the eating apparatus was to be placed| Greenville — F. E, Rauney, formerly At grocery stock New hore, barn und store i i seme r hak | ; : j : ZO00 } et gs Denmark—A. Wakeman succeeds R, | i® their basement. The apparatus takes connected with the Belding Manufactur- | — price — entire place. Address oe " > sn; . c ne * ’ ‘ = " " iG f 1az00, Mich. SSS Mk 6 On, Sik. bo ced ee. up half the space, and S. Simon & Co. ing Co., has been induced to locate here Ok RENT — SRonw ie an = i+ Dundee—Henry Cockrill has sold his charged the other firm rent. The object and take the management of a refrigera- e the best Jenseits * the oe Siete for restaurant business to Rudolph Howe. | Of the suit is to make them pay it. tor factory, to be conducted by a stock | Michigan Tradeaman ee . Marshall—Geo. W. Rogers has pur- MANUFACTURING MATTERS company organized for that purpose, The | gece = A, antl pipe — ae DO IT ' o MA? STURING M/ cRS. So . i a cause re st-class stock of drugs on =| chased the grocery stock of A. B. King. aos " = epcinc. ¢ | business men here agree to turn over to| my hands. If aha man in “Michigan ewho " West Bay City—A. E. Morris succeeds 4 aginaw—C. F. Hilbig is succeeded by the company the potato starch factory, | “Euan cae een SALERRO CLEAN NEW QTOCER OF DPY Detroit—John M. Emerson, lumber - _— The Steel Clad Bath Co. has | mortgage indebtedness of $4,000 and me lute cee onde aang some Hii |g dealer, is sueceeded by Emerson Mnfg. oe incorporated under the style of the so take $10,000 stock in the corporation. | shoes, groceries, cigars, tobaceos and confee’ Co. Steel Bath Mfg. Co. Manistee—The boats are hurrying now soar mea arg smeanimbeec came iin Me bes Jackson—The Weeks Drug and Chemi- | to get salt forward, and the question oe ee Bi conug a 8 Se . i ‘ . a cee e : oe. : : Stock will invoice about $6,000. ddress No. chased the drug stock of Geo. J. Weisin- cal ~ = ene its capital stock | from this time on will be about carrying | 594, care Michigan Tradesman. 594 eS ger. from $15,000 to $25,000. salt on deck, as Lake Michigan gets — a a _- — 1 GRO- gain eer ao 8 . nn oe eee cery business. eason of selling, poor West Branch—Daniel Jacobs has pur- i Haring Peck & Cutler have been in- rather turbulent about this time and they | health.” W. L. Mead, Tonia, Mich. 576 oe due re i ‘tory : i AT AW aa eaaa ene = chased the general stock of Chas. Woods : — ee their handle factory | are apt to lose a good part of the deck A =chawiie alesis mies aoe | | & Co. peasy by to this place by the offer of | load, which the vessel has to stand, and merly owned by the Shepherd Clothespin Fac- " i" a bui si 5 : nl a i : ee tory Co, locate Shepherd, Isabe 7 Langden Hubbard, of the banking firm na oote antl @ berms. which causes considerable inroads in eich, whaee all kinds of tahoe te soc cueeee art 7. Seknee & Ge. ot Bed dee & Alpena—The new stave mill of W. A. their freight. Some of the mills are try- | °an be bought at lowest known prices. Build- . ° ’ Axe, IS Cockley & Co. will start up early next |i cee i : ings and machinery new and well adapted for dead. . . s p early ne; ing to solve the problem by engaging | any wooden ware factory work. O. H. Stanton, ion, | al iidhA A Denese month. The firm sent a crew up the barges that can carry salt in the hold, soeiann, Mich. eibiiiee a al _580 river last week to cut timber ci i | [| HAVE PAID-UP STOCK IN A MANUFAC- Durfee in the ice cream and oyster busi- A saa ' and giving them a deck load of lumber. | J. turing establishment in a live town in Michi- sR Alpena—J. A. Widner is buying con-| That works very well in most cases, the ecu eee “sal Ludington—W. C. Cartier is succeeded ar HO of cedar, and it is} only trouble being that there are hardly ps2 a ogres oo ae - - : ee ‘ . | coming dow yer ¢ i j . an OR sALE—A STOCK OF GENERAL MER- by Cargill & Chase in the grocery busi- g » Oe river and by rail. There enough available boats of that class to chandise - a ao gro gee 4 i _ siege out by water 315,000 | carry all that is wanted. laa a tg oi ‘hues < y Red Jacket—C. J. Sorsen is succeeded a posts a ee ties. re haces rs = we offer an ee trade and a on ce i. a : Negaunee—The Johnson Xo. : profitable investment. Will rent or sell the by Sorsen & Sodergren in the drug busi- ai a a te | vay Herbert T. Chase and family have re- | building. M. V. Gundrum & Co. "588 os s se perior 28 —STOCK , iGs y nIX- ae ord—Chas. M. Gillespie | Iron Co. a bunch of pine estimated to turned from Cape Cod and Mr. Chase has “tures, about 1.200, in pied Seteien with e —Unhas. M. Gillespie has pur- cut about 1,000,000 feet peageen .. {resumed his pilgrimages in the interest |!0W Tent. Established trade. Part cash and hn chased the grocery stock of Baker & ’ . eet, north of this i i ' easy terms on balance to right party. Fine open- gn ad a { y , place, and will put camps in and begin of Chase & Sanborn. jag oe = physiaton. Satisfactory reasons for mad Pi & Bri ill cutting at once. S. E. Gauthier, the Cherry street gro-| PAXCELLENT OPPOMTUNITS bor Hee udson—Pierce & Briggs will s : ; ‘ pr Poteet a neo : 4 2 s ” ggs will succeed Saginaw—Smith & Adams, who have | °°” has gone to Detroit and will spend a inéss man with $5,000 to $10,000 ready money tichards & Halran in the boot and shoe ' ’ month in that city and vicinity. He i to embark in the wholesale business in Grand es been lumbering in Montmorency county y and vicinity. @ 18} Rapids and take the management of same. u a," eix years for Burrows & Rust, are moving | 2°¢O™Panied by his wife. eee eiens sae a ggg pe em a }reenville—Mi . 13. ei 4 S 3 ’ . i : & who mean business. o others Fost r & Mill gel aa os ae their camp equipage to Ontonagon, where C. H. Libby, formerly with Cornelius | need apply. No. 556, care Michigan Tradesman. bi oster & Miller in the feed and produce Tee F he So. Division s is 556 : they have taken a large job, and wil] | 9%: the So. Division street grocer, is now | sy—3340 p+ oe business. f ’ : : OR SALE—A FINE AND WELL-ASSORTED sa a : bank 15,000,000 feet the coming winter, | ™@@8ing the store and lumber business stock of dry goods, boots, shoes, hats, ‘caps Petoskey—B. F. Donoven is sueceed- :, : : r lof L. T. Kinney, at ee tive se and gents’ furnishing goods, in live railroad and od bed. W. Lett & Sen in te a Sault Ste. Marie—R. Thew, of Cleve- 4. 1. y; 4yman, three miles | manufacturing town of from 500 to 600 inhabi- si- I a ae eas hice. land, is considering the matter of build- | West Of Woodville. other ne ny stat at aetae eae ies s s . - ‘ 1e€r and more important business requires the sipicous ing a shingle mill here, and if a site can Having never been able to make a sat- | attention of the proprietor. We court leas Saginaw—Rosa (Mrs. L.) Art is sue- ‘ ° ee : a a investigation and will guarantee a profitable = - Te ) be secured and exemption from taxation isfactory disposal of his car Spring, | investment. Address No. 571, care Michigan ceeded by Cook & Montross in the cloth- guaranteed, he will go ahead with the | Patented a few years ago, L. E. Hawkins | TT2desman. SNK | > ing business. 7c Lo ' ri . ee i i OR SALE OR EXCHANE—CLEAN STOCK Hancock — Ferdinand Fisher work. He has a large body of timber on has lately invented an improvement on . of dry goods and gents’ furnishing goods, 2 her, manu-/ roo Heart River. the device, by means of which he confi- | @00¢ Point for trade. Reason for selling, other facturer of potash, has sold his business ly i Sos ness requires our attention. Address No. ace we. Cheboygan—The Webber-Hall S iaiiities dently expects to be able to realize a , 568, care Michigan Tradesman. 568 Ss. : iti ; ae ae iat meer abd ._| handsome addition to his present income. its Ac is Oss ee new shingle mill on Bois Blane Is : P SITUATIONS WANTED. Fe a ae ' land is in operation. It is expected that| D+ C- Leach, who has spent much time ii 8 s : and meat business of M. the mill will run winter and summer, | 224 money in developing a cranberry oe a OF qe euSst. AS a $ 5k . ' ’ 7 ore = drv ae - ee & Son : i. and it has a capacity of 45,000 daily marsh at Walton, is apparently destined | wall paper store by man of i? \ cmap arnt <= Kalamazoo—L. C. Watkins has pur-|,,. : " i Ss sueneae be Give full particulars. L.A Ely, Muir, Mich.592 a aiike ahaa aes rhe company will also cut a large quan-| © ™@ke a success of the business, as he ANTED--A FIRST GLASS Wat 592 sige € i and news business of O. tity of cedar posts during the winter. has gathered a crop of over 400 bushels, 7 ae is looking for Seen ia oe "Battle Creek — Manistee—The Canfield & Wheeler oil |MOSt Of which are as large in size and | Connection wiih Tara ag, fol can be had a ek— & Ly il- a. . ae J e f p i a e : srt & Ly 2 tail well is down 1,875 feet and is working fine in quality as the half bushel on ex- a. a desired. “‘E,” care of L. A. ors, have dissolved and are succeeded by | . . : i a ibiti Tr ne : woe | Remote dinner. 593 Mies denne slowly in a shaley rock, in which they — - ~ TRADESMAN office. ANTED—POSITION BY YOUNG LADY i Hien have to be very careful not to jam their Geo. L. Thurston, junior member of as book-keeper or assistant book-keeper ~ Y Grand Ledge—A. L. Worden continues ¢ the fi f Thurs Gress Neer, Can furnish good references, Ad- : ' tools. They expect to get salt at a little | ‘he firm o hurston & Co., general deal- | dress No. 586, care Michigan Tradesman. 586 wily the drug business formerly carried on by below 1,900 feet, and then at about 1.950 | &TS at Central Lake, was in town sey ee ' Worden, Covey & Cc : ft ' awe 5 ie ape ried MISCEL eon raping s feet to strike hard rock below the salt. | ©7@! days last week. Mr. Thurston is anion ie sit ye ( aoa _BTOCeTY | They will put down pipe to this rock, | Wite well known to the readers of Tue Sar oe wari BOOKS? TF SO, DO “ i " oo. ae i" ' 1 a " croc ery dea ers, 1ave dissolved, and then see if they cannot find oi! below TRADESMAN through his contributions | United States’ If yontn gue op coe oo Barnes & Son succeeding. he sake : to these columns, and it is a matter of re- | Pe7*#desman Company, Grand Rapids. Manistee —N. W. Nelson, assignee, a i ; OR SALE — GOOD DIVIDEND - PAY oa. sig Kalamazoo — The Allegan Paper Co. gret to both editor and readers that he i} stocks in banking, manufacturing a i . to F. C. Reynold ; : poly a i pers has been organized with a capital stock | 4es Hot find time to devote more atten-| Grand Rapldew’ & 4+ Stowe, 100 on » U. heynoids at 90 cents on the dol- i a . : | a ; : mR sh of $25,000, all paid in, to embark in the tion to work of this character. OR SALE Taos RESIDENCE LOT IN i . da Rapids, 70x175 C ie ae! : manufacture of straw wrapping paper at A. Burton, formerly engaged in the/ eq with native ecke, sinustnd'ia cnet nee Union City—Ed Rupright has pur- Allegan, having acquired the paper mii] | S2i=gle mill business near White Cloud, mee ee Sagan siete street car “Has Mrs. Sara Ca ars j ast j ; ‘ . . Seii for $2 500 cash, or part ca - cha — Sara C poem r’s eens in and water power of J. B. Streator & Son. but for the past few months engaged in ments to suit. E, A. Stowe, 100 tae = nein ll the dry goods stock of Hitchcock & Car-| The principal stockholders are J. Weaver | *2€ Same business at Hesperia, was in ‘Tl bo ee LOTS IN VILLAGE OF il . : ing to exchange for ery penter. & Co., and Fred Walker of Kalamazoo | *®W® one day last week. Mr. Burton has —— —_ to $1,500. Will nay “difrerenes in A a Menominee — The wholesale grocery|and E. A. Jacks, manager of the Niles formed a copartnership with G. D. Gow- man. a se firm of Somerville, Penberthy & Co. has | Paper Mills. ell, under the style of Gowell & Burton, or A SPECIALTY FOR DRUM —" issolv siness j , j : : and the ji ‘ 8 side line, and will make lib tat ea —— being continued Manistee—That the spar timber is not as pai oralenmnagin: — pagent goods and grocery aan boar ae dhe ra ary y Penberthy & Cook. , Be ae i , mules south of Wes B Oo WG et Oot and shoe trade. y all exhausted at this point yet was dem-| Tune. adi 00th oneeen i | a t Address N. P. Co., 96 State street, Chicago, oi Jossman & Bird, proprietors of the | onstrated last week, when the Manistee | | Ce ¥ _— oe ANTED COMPETENT REGULAR PHY- a Clarkston Exchange Bank, have dis-| & Grand Rapids Railroad brought in Pm ‘aaa ae oon ——_ physician’ in place, ‘which “ie neste oe gong i ae i contrac i i : “ oe solved partnership. Hereafter the busi-' about 20 white pine spars, which would! J. Dudley, of Fremont, until jon ae oe are Ae. Oe see ~ ~ | c ie - _ ~ ~~ « 7” - >| iv } - - | - - te | La o- ~ - - - 7 » > =< = THEH MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. 5 | GRAND RAPIDS GOSSIP. ; and a pint of whisky to a mossback, then | sneak ack F Peter Mull bas opened a meat market | — - — oe oe oo The next one expressed an 2 | dinner. at the corner of Clancy and Fairbanks | streets |earnest desire to see every drummer a | hanged, and the third one pawed my O. H. Hawley & Son have engaged in | samples over for an hour, informed me the grocery business at Shelby. The) that all my best stories were told by Ball-Barnhart-Putman Co. furnished the! Shemand Japheth in the ark, and that stock. | Ham grew black in the face trying to re- —- Loveland has arranged to open strain his desire to pitch them overboard. a grocery store at Belding. The Olney | I got sour bread and fried catfish for din- & Judson Grocer Co. has the order for | 2? and slept that night on a corn-husk the stock. F. A. Green has purchased the grocery stock of N. S. Hubbard, at 75 Pear! street, and will continue the business under the style of Green the Grocer. H. W. Hawkins, dealer in dry goods and boots and shoes at Reed City, has added a line of groceries. The Ball- Barnhart-Putman Co. furnished the stock. The Kent County Savings Bank, of this city, is now pleasantly settled in the entire ground floor of its own building, with new furniture and new equipment throughout. Two ear loads of crockery from Eng- land, eight casks of china from France and eleven cases of glass baskets from Austria cleared the custom house here last Friday for H. Leonard & Sons. W. D. Ballou and Daniel W. Elferdink have formed a copartnership under the style of Ballou & Elferdink and the new firm has hurchased the stock and fixtures of the Wolverine Drug Co., at 345 East Bridge street. —S

The New Shoe House. The Herold-Bertsch Shoe Co. has filed articles of association and begun busi- | ness in its corporate capacity. The com- | pany has an authorized capital of $70,- | 000, of which $60,000 is subscribed and paid in, being divided equally between Christian Bertsch, Russell W. Bertsch, A. C. Wetzel, Geo. L. Medes, Alonzo Herold and Fred E. Walther, who will serve as directors of the corporation for the ensuing year. The officers of the corporation are as follows: President—Christian Bertsch. Vice-President—A. Herold. Secretary—Geo. L. Medes. Treasurer—A. C. Wetzel. As previously stated in these columns, the company has leased the ground floor and basement of the Morman & Wilmarth building, at 5 and 7 Pear! street, where a full jobbing line of boots, shoes and rub- bers has been putin and a general job- bing business in those lines will be con- ducted. _ > ———— The Grocery Market. Sugar—The raw market is dull and lower. There is no change in hard goods at the refineries, but the jobbers have re- duced the margin of profit demanded for immediate delivery. Fruits—Citron is lower and unsettled, mainly due to the amount of poor stock on the market. Currants are in fair de- mand and steady in price. Dates are in moderate request and steady. New prunes will probably be very firm. Val- encia raisins are in fair demand. Old Sultanas have about all been disposed of. California in boxes and bags are with- out particular change. Fish—Cod is in better request and firmer. The cooler weather has stimu- lated the demand for box herring. Mack- erel is steady and firm. Canned Goods—Corn and tomatoes con- tinue active and firm. Other vegetables are in limited request and steady. Peach- es are a trifle weaker. Alaska salmon rule high, on account of the stocks being under strong control. Lobsters are quiet. Lemons—tTrifle lower, on account of cool weather. Bananas—Very plenty, on account of large receipts. The low prices have checked shipments and higher prices will probably rule inside of ten days. Nuts—All foreign varieties are steady and without change oo Muskegon—Franklin MacVeigh & Co., of Chicago, have taken possession of the E. E. Philabaum grocery stock. Se a a Use The Tradesman Co.’s Cowpon Books. BUGKWHEAT FLUUR. We make an absolutely pure and unadulterated article, and it has the GENUiNE OLD-FASHIONED FLAVOR. Our customers of previous years know whereof we speak and from others we solicit a trial order. Present price $5 per bbl. in paper $ and 1-16 sacks. THE WALMEDEROOG MILLING GO, HOLLAND, MICH. Correspondence Solicited. Govpon Books Buy of the Largest Manufacturers in the Country and Save Money. The Tradesman Company, Grand Rapids HESTER MACHINERY CO,, | AGENTS FOR ASPHALT Automatic Balanced Single Valve Engines. | Horizontal, Tubular and Locomotive | F| RE- H “ 0 0 F R 0 0 | 8 6 BOILERS. Upright a Boilers for Light | r | places where Tin and Iron has failed; is super- | for to Shingles and much cheaper. Grand Rapids. | Plain Slide’Valve Engines with Throttling | Governors. j This Roofing is guaranteed to stand in all ower. Prices on application. 45 S, Division St., ' The best Rooting for covering over Shmgles | on old roofs of houses, barns, sheds, etc.; will | notrot or pull loose, and when painted with our ’ ‘FIRE-PROOF ROOF PAINT, Will last loiger than shingles. Write the un- | dersigned for prices and circulars, relative to Roofing and for samples of Building Papers, tc. H. M. REYNOLDS & SOK, Practical Roofers, Gor. Louis and Campau Sts., Grand Rapids, Mich. Teacher—W hati: the best Cigar soldi. this country to-day? Class (in chorus)— ben Hur! 10c or 3 for 25c. Flags, Banners and Streamers. Of all kinds and made to order. Made on Honor ! Sold on Merit ! ORDER FROM YOUR DEALER. GEU. MORBS & GO, Manufacturers, DETROIT. CHICAGO. We Make‘a Specialty of Campaign Banners and streamers. Portraits of Candidates on Cloth or Paper. CHAS. A. COYE, 11 PEARL ST. .GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. 6 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. The Record of a Walking Delegate. Tilly Haynes, a Boston hotel keeper, recently leased the Grand Central Hotel, on Broadway, New York City, and start- ed out to expend $150,000 in the work of | renovation, of which fully three-fourths | was to go for labor. He made terms with his men which were mutually satis- factory. Work had hardly been begun, however, when the walking delegate ap- peared and demanded that the men should work only eight hours a day instead of nine. Mr. Haynes acceded. A week later the walking delegate came around again and said that some of the carpen- ters were working for $3.25 a day, and that they must be paid $3.50. This de- mand, also, was yielded to. A few days later the delegate informed Mr. Haynes that he had two stairbuilders from Bos- ton, and that, although these men were union men, they could not work unless they had their union tickets changed and paid the fee for working in this city. This trouble was settled by the return of the offenders to Boston. While the men were at work, the walking delegates entered th> building and walked about through it at their pleasure, taking down the workmen’s names and asking if they belonged to the union. One of the carpenters replied: ‘‘None of your business.” The nextday the delegate met the men when they came to work and told them a strike had been ordered. Some of the men shed tears and said their families were suffer- ing, but all obeyed. Mr. Haynes next re- ceived a visit from the grand council, who informed him that their delegates must be respected. After consultation the council agreed that the man who had insulted their delegate and the rest of the men might go back to work, but the man must by Saturday become a full member of the union. Notwithstanding this, when the men came to work the next morning, the delegate declared that no one should go to work until the man who had insulted him was discharged. The difficulty was finally compromised by the man being given his wages, in order that he might immediately go and pay his dues and become a member of the union. It was three days, however, before he could get himself into regular standing, and during this time none of the men were permitted to work. This was by no means the end of Mr. Haynes’ troubles with the walking dele- gate. He had made a contract with a Boston firm to put in some new marble. and, on learning this, the delegate for the third time made the men quit work, though, upon Mr. Haynes’ assurance that no marble from Boston was actually be- ing laid at that time, they were permitted to resume work. Then Mr. Haynes learned that the delegates were going about among the men collecting $1 from each for allowing them to work. When the marble from Boston arrived, the dele- gates refused to allow it to be unloaded, and when Mr. Haynes sought the pro- tection of the police, the delegates called out all the carpenters and painters. Then the representative of the steam fitters told Mr. Haynes that he would have to send his engineer back to Boston, and on his refusal the union fitters were made to stop work. By this time Mr. Haynes decided that he had suffered enough from the tyranny of the walking delegate, and he decided to employ no more men who were the slaves of such an infamous system of es- plonage. He secured a full force of non- union men, whom he finds better work- men than the union men. ———-»S -4 a This is a good time to remark that the bleached sponges of commerce are not hospital sponges cleaned, as so many un- thinking people suppose. The sponges used in hospitals are now generally burned. The white sponges are simply bleached. Only the finest and best are selected for bleaching, and these are placed in a bath of diluted hydrochloric acid with a little hyposulphite of soda. Left in this mixture a few hours, the sponge becomes as white as snow,though the process is not generally carried so far, a light shade of yellow or straw color selling more readily than the white. ———-{(q.].+. +> ___ Use Tradesman Coupon Books. USE Best Six Cord Machine or Hand Use. FOR SALE BY ALL Dealers in Dry Goods & Notions G. R. MAYHEW, Grand Rapids, Mich., JOBBER OF Wales Goodyear Rubbers, Woonsocket Rubbers, Felt Boots and Alaska Socks. MODEL (Trade Mark.) FORM. Schilling’s FRENGH SHAPE _* & Send for Illustrated Catalogue. in this journal. SCHILLING CORSET CO., Detroit, Mich. and Chicago, Ill. See price list * \ —_— Dry Goods Price Current. Amoskeag heer ....12%/[Columbian ae UNBLEACHED COTTONS, : —-- _ Everett, blue........ wt —— ee “ a = aM BOOT... 6... % Haymaker blue. an 7% Ee oo “« Lb Beaver Creek AA...10 brown... 7% AeA ge Se ee +“ BB 9 |Jaffrey .11% Atlantic Been ee ous Full Yard Wide..... 6% i. cc ies Lancaster ee 12% ts Sebbanaten Ena - oes * Boston Mfg Co. br.. 7 Lawrence, 9oz......18K% 7 - 5% Honest Width....... 6% ‘“ blue 8% 0. 220. ..13 “UP ' 7 “ datwist 10%] —No.250....11% coe ere ata 6% | Columbian XXX br.10 No, 280....10% a... |... 6% el % Fe XXX bl 19 Archery Bunting.. King EC. es ax ' —— Dam _ * Sus ae Li. z zo ex GINGHAMS, ackstone O, 32 5 |Madras cheese cloth 6% | amoskeag...... .... Lance: ter, staple... 7 peace Ciow......... 6 Newmarket S.. et dress ae ans Sots gay 7 Black Rock - 6 L B..... | “s Canton .. 8%| ‘“ Normandie 8 Boot, AL.... 2 c N...... 64 “ APC... .. -10%|Lancashire.......... 6 Capital A.... ...... 5%) c DD.... 54 “ Teazle...10%/Manchester......... 5% Coren V..... ~ 6% “ Angola..10%|Monogram.......... 6% Chapman _—— _ sane R.. 5 co Persian.. 8%|Normandie......... Ti Clifton CR.... 5% Our Level Best..... 6% Arlington staple.... 644|Persian............. 8% Comet... ...... .... . 64 /Oxford R.. 6 | Arasapha fancy.... 4%|/Renfrew Dress...... 7% Dwight Star......... os Pequot. . --+ 7 | Bates Warwick dres 8%|Rosemont........... 6% Clifton CCC........ 644/|Solar.. +++ 6 “ staples. io Slatersville......... 6 liad _|Top of the Heap....7 | Centennial......... 10% Somerset ah i Criterion ..... i eon... .5......- Sec. 14|Geo. ee. - 8 | Cumberland staple. 54 Toil du Nord....... 10% AMAZON........-.-.. Glen Mills.......... Cumberland.... .... Wabash............. ™% 2s... Gold Medal ee eee Aiea a4 “‘geersucker.. 7% Art Cambric........ 10 /|Green Ticket....... eee 7%|Warwick.... ...... 8% Blackstone A A..... 7 |Great Falis.......... 64 | Everett classics..... 8'4|Whittenden......... 6% meee .......... 4%|Ho ID + oe ce ccsecccces 7% Exposition.......... 7 “c heather dr. 8 Pee 12 jJust Out...... 4%@ 5 as... 6% “ indigo blue 9 Cabot............... 7 |King Phillip........ % Glenarven.......... 6%/|Wamsutta staples... 6% Cabot, %............ 6 OP..... Glenwood........-.. 7¥4|Westbrook.......... 8 Charter Oak........ 5% |Lonsdale —. "10 Hampton........... Se 10 Conway W.......... uM Lonsdale...... @ 8% | Johnson Uhalon cl % miata fe 5 rene... |. Middlesex.... .. @5 “ indigo blue 9%|York .... .......... 6% Dwight Anchor..... 5 ee eo 7% “ zephyrs....16 " — 8 |Oak — Cy 6 — BAGS. Edwards. . -_S 2 Own..........,. 5% Empire.........-.... 7 |Prideof the West...12” | Amoskeag... a [Valley City.......... 15 awe 7%|Rosalind............ 7% | Stark..............- % Georgia ............ 15 Fruit of the Loom. es Settee 436 | Amerioan........... = (Pac: ee 13 oa oo Utica — oe 7. eg THREADS, _ coe...,-..... onpareil .. . : Frultof the Loom %. 7%|Vinyard en: eS ee = Pelmount.......... in White Horse........ © lmao ae Pen Vouus.......... 6% Rock 8% y germane HALF BLEACHED COTTONS. KNITTING COTTON. a, 7 |Dwight Anchor..... 84 White. Colored. White. Colored. Parwell..2..0./ 1... 8 | No. 6.. ..38 38 |No. 14.......37 42 CANTON FLANNEL. « s.....,.00 tl CU. 38 43 Unbleached Ble med. - =. 35 i 8... 44 Housewife A........ 4% Housewife _ a 2 36 41 — 2......00 45 . . os e iL . . CAMBRICS, “ a. 6 us - ae... 4%(Edwards........... 4% Bs = ...... oe ' U Wate Gter...... .. 44%4|Lockwood.......... 4% “ a. | 6% “ V | eee Ceve........... 4%/|Wood’s.. 4% “ a. 7 “ _. 104% | Newmarket......... bid Brunswick . 4% : -..... 14 i xX iad a 1 RED FLANNEL. : ; wees ee yg LU - ee ees - Miran... 6... a 22% : st Se ene Cee... ...... oo B2% I giz were Bee... -— woe, See......... 35 oer ip Nameless...........27}¢|/Buckeye.... .......- 32% ' NN. --10% MIXED FLANNEL, Baten 11% Red & Blue, plaid..40 |Grey SRW......... 17% ' fe 14 Le. 24% oe MW oc 18% CARPET WARP. ee os 18%|D R P --18% Peerless, white.. “an a “pecs -20 | 60z Western........ 20 |Flushing Xxx. oe B% ‘colored . ...19%| White Star.......... 1 oe 8. 224%|Manitoba...........23% ceeeraty.......... "..18%4| o "oalewed. 9 DOMET FLANNEL. DRESS GOODS. Nameless ..... 8 9 eS 9 @10 ee. .......... S jmemelem...... ..... 20 — : S4@10 ee + oe ” eee 9 i oe A88 AND PADD . sreceese 10K ale ae 27% | Slate. Beown. “oo Slate i. Black. GG Cashmere...... 20 : Turkey red & _ “ Martha Washin; sg “~ 44 10 Turkey ree... 9% “ “* 34XXXX 12 /|Riverpoint robes. Cocheco = ees ; Windsor es 0 . Xx aie. 6%| indigo en - solids...... 544|Harmony......... CKINGS, Meee RCA... mA A... .... 8. Doan 2 ......... ce — AAA.. | ees A i eek oe cera “10% URES “ Awning..11 |Swift River......... 7% | Alabama a sae were... cL. = eer mever......... 2” Pe PUNO... 055. 11%/|Warren....... ede 13 Lenox Mills ........ 18 COTTON DRILL. meee es eee A Cw... 8 EE See 6%|No Name........ - ™% Mies 550/55. 634|Top of Heap........ 9 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. 7 SIGNS AS ADVERTISEMENTS. Shops and store signs have two intents —to keep old customers and win new ones. In both these objects they con- form to one of the basie principles of ad- vertising. Signs are very ancient; so ancient that the beginning of authentic history re- cords their existence without disclosing their origin. Nor is this strange, for buying and selling are almost as old as the human race, and one of the earliest classifications of society is that which divides mankind into vendors and pur- chasers. Before printers’ ink had made a knowledge of letters well nigh universal, the ability to read alphabetical charac- ters was a rare and technical art. Hence, till times quite recent, merchants’ signs consisted in natural objects or in artifi- cial productions of the carver, the molder or the painter. The change to verbal de- lineation has been in the direction of utility, but art has lost much with the disappearance of the figured and colored emblems of trade. As for the signmak- ers’ old-time ingenuity, it has been rather converted, or rather diverted, to the new methods than discontinued, and in its survival, under changed conditions, is the promise that the sign painter and the artist have not parted company forever. Indeed, the last ten years have been graced by many visible proofs of a re- vival of artistic feeling in the manner of commercial signs, and in this rebirth of art in the unity it is not difficult to trace the reflex action upon sign-boards of high-class illustrations now so common in newspaper advertisements. Thusand again one is tempted to exclaim, that as in the Augustan age all roads led to Rome, so in these later days many pleas- ant and profitable paths along which men pursue their way converge upon this modern practice of scientific, be- cause calculated, advertising. A satisfactory proof of the usefulness, and, therefore, value of signs, is the tender care with which the law protects them. Law is a growth, not a fabrica- tion; and when one sees the law stretch- ing its long and strong arm over any- thing, one knows that the thing so guard- ed has already made its place in the social economy. You must not appro- priate or imitate your competitor’s signs. To do so is legally stigmatized as unfair trading, for his signs are a part of the ‘‘good will’ of the business, and the public is not to be compelled to go about with microscope or telescope to distin- guish his place of business from your own. If you are in trade you must have signs upon your commercial premises. To say that those signs should be the best that human ingenuity can devise for the purpose of your business is but to state a truism. Here are a few funda- mental rules that will be found to hold good however various their application to particular cases: 1. The heart or core of every business sign should consist of an inscription of words, no matter how elaborate the back-ground or other accessories. 2. The verbal inscription should be as verbal and graphic as circumstances will admit, and the baldness of statement of a visiting card should be avoided. 8. Display lettering should be used for more important words or phrases. 4. Ornamentation should be used and applied so as not to interfere with the rapid and sure reading of the words on the signs. 5. The sign, as an entity, should have a distinctive character—a personalty of its own as exclusive as that of its pro- prietor—and this distinctive character should not be eccentric, but one possess- ing the qualities of true impressiveness and responsible permanence. 6. The essentials of the sign should be determined with regard to continuity of use, so that they may survive changes of proprietorship or of firm name in the business methods, or change of location. 7. The sign, asan entire thing, should be designed with due respect to its visi- ble surroundings, whether present or probable in the not too far distant future; and this consideration should include the capability of the sign to be making bus- iness for its owner during the days and hours of temporar ssation ei | eres Bceee Pim... 8. 60&10 HAMMERS, sr —— ee ee GO810 | Maydole & 00.9... oc oo. a ae oe i . _——— mimes ene 60&10 Cee ee ay "ais. = 8. The sign should be capable of | Wrought Brass....................0+05 ise Ss ai. 40410 economical repair or renewal, without Bling’ ae settee cette ee ee ee seee eee een ees = asaan Mason’s Solid Cast Steel................. 0c list 60 material change in its character. If the Blind: a Pe Sp ee ee Hand... .30¢ 40810 goods made or sold on the sign-marked sme Gate Clark’s, 1, 2,3 HINGES, detonen premises will permit it, a neatly painted | ordinary Tackle, list April 1892. ......... 50 Bo Ce Te eae r doz. net, 2 50 illustration of those lines should have an ee Screw — and Strap, to 12 in. 4% 14 and Ss ee Oe it dis. 50402 screw 7 Hook a — " . L nr. llc GS SS Sf, net § The foregoing rules will not be re-| oagstoel iw... eee per 5 a 6 eceeee eee eee ceees net 7 garded as too recondite or fanciful when Gaps. mona’ Berne eee cee eer ceee = Ty the pressure of competion and its relief | Bly’s1-10......0 0.22.00... ccc eee. perm 65 ets ane a by judicious advertising be taken into Ww OC. Boe. e eee ee eee eect eee ees a = Barn Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track... .50&10 et, — ine 6 ees Oe ee -.--....---.------ Ce the difference between unskilled or head- CARTRIDGES. HOLLOW WARE. less advertising and no advertising at all | pin Wire... occ eee ee Pais RRM cial ite eal tela ace el a Ui 60610 makes but little substantial difference in | Central Fire....... 0.2.2.0... ..eeee cece ee dis. 25 Kettisa Err ret eaararatia greens tenant nina i aes the result. CHISELS. ~_ nea. 2... 40810 It may not be amiss to note that when | Socket Pirmer.............................. 70&10 HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS. the owner of a sign isSsimply a tenant of ae settee eeeeenceeeeeeceneeeaeees 7O&10 | Stamped Tin Ware................+++ .new list 70 the premises upon which the sigm SP-| socket Glee 002o00..0...0ccccs.01s--- 10M ae ae list a0 pears, the rights and benefits of signs be- | Butchers’ Tanged Firmer............ ...... WIRE GOODS. long wholly to himself, and cannot be COMBS. — eee 70810810 appropriated or retained by the landlord | Curry, Lawrence’s..............002.0:00006 40 Serew iiyea.<.. sce. 2oo 0 teeereeees 70&10&10 t ti , ee. og | HOOK’s...... 2... 2... e eee eee ee eee ee -70&10&10 or a new tenant upon vacation of the ao r Gate Hooks and Eyes............... 70&10&10 — a eT ea White Crayons, per gross.......... 12@12% dis. 10) Stanley Rule and Level Co.” Se — COPPER, ROPES. Hardening Copper. Planished, 14.0 neta elze. ns perpound 6% Sisal, 4 fae dnd lateae 9% A Canadian blacksmith is said to have 14x52, 14x56, 14x60 .............05. 9g | Manilla............. fear isnt esaetn ts a discovered the “lost art” of hardening poner Botted: 14x86 and 100 Co = Steel and Iron..... " See eee “a and tempering copper, and it “certainly | Cs ata tae ee 60 looks as though he was on the right track, DRILLS. dis, {tre .... 2... .... Bledel iets 20 if dependence can be placed in the re-| Morse’s Bit StocKs................0s0se00 50 C Com. Smooth. Com. ports of the tests made with the metal aoe creer nt _— vote eeee ee cee e eee = Nos. 10 to 14...... -+--8405 = 82:95 treated.” These tests prove it to be omee es Veper meee... " — poled eae H ca 2 harder and of a higher resistence to pro-| «on sig a a TG a Nos. 2to%.. 1% 3% jectiles than the very best of steel. It| Parge sizes, per pound...2.2 2222.2! yy | N08,25 10.28... 42% 3825 has been tested successfully at the gov- ELBOWS. in ae No. 18 and lighter ena sei ernment ranges, ‘bullets fired at forty | com 4 piece, 6im................02- dos. net 75 wide not lessthan210extra yards being flattened and split against a| Corrugated ....... 40 SAND PAPER. copper plate one and three-quarters of an Adjustable... a 40&10 | List acct. 19, nae eae dis. 50 inch in thickness.” The matter, says an EXPANSIVE BITS. dis. Silver Lake, White A..............200004 Met 50 English exchange, ‘‘will be at once | Clark’s, small, $18; large, $26................ 30 : Drab A.. teteteeeeeeeee | 55 brought to the attention of the Admiralty, Seer, 1, Gi; S Oe & Oe ................... 25 ic Lora ee a . ° and itis claimed that if the process stands : riiBs—New List. dis. “ eee eS all tests at the English dock-yards, as is ee 80810 Discount, 10. : : 3. | Now American...................---s0sseeee 60&10 SASH WEIGHTS, expected, it will work a revolution in | Nicholson's .............-.0cccceccceeee cece 60&10 | solid Eyes ee ton #25 armor-plating.’’ ee ee Oe Heller’s Horse Rasps............ssc0es..... er meses eae os GALVANIZED IRON. Silver Steel Dia. X Cuts, per foot, . 70 Jerusalem on a Boom. d . — Steel Dex X Cuts, per foot... 50 i . : Nos. 16 to 20; -* 24; MH and %; 2 2 According to a letter written by a mis-| Tist 12 © 13 15 16 17 — Steel Dia. X Cuts, per foot... 30 sionary in Palestine to a friend in this| Discount, 60 aids . — and Electric Tooth X country, Jerusalem has been enjoying a ane dis. _— TT ae ae boom since the completion of the rail- | Stanley Rule and ge ory state ee eees . 50 Steel, Game Oa aa agent reno 80410 ; ; KNOBS—New Lis 8, neida Commun Ownhouse's ........... 35 road that connects it with Jaffa. Over Door, mineral, jap. trimmings .............. 55 | Oneida Community, Hawley « Norton’s.. 70 three hundred houses, hotels, stores and Door, porcelain, jap. oi... | Se eons, Choker 18¢ per doz residences have been erected. The city —, ——-. — trimmings uA = Mouse, delusion................ 81. ee _ swarms with real estate agents, and a| Door, porcelvin, trimmings .......... eo is : ene... . . ree eee el, bustle pervades the sacred old place that | D'*¥°F 894 Shutier, porcelaia ~_ ee 010 is novel enough. The Holy Land will | Russell & Irwin Mfg. Co.’s new list ....... Sh | Coppereé Market. ................. ee soon be gridironed with railroads, of ees — 7 ett: = Coppered Spring Sigel. oti Be = which Jerusalem will be the center. The OO ce arbed Fence, galvanized...... 002.0220... 3.00 road from Jaffa to Jerusalem, which was MATTOCES. eS 2 55 opened for traffic Sept. 21, crosses the | Sone ye. 00020 6.00; die, ©) | AD Sable... nnn... dle, 40810 valley of Hinnom, and passes within a] Hunt’s...... 0000000000 Jc0ooe.. $18.50, ie, NEE * dis. 06 few hundred yards of the Pool of Bethes- ! dis. | Northwestern...................... dis. 10&10 da. Work on the road to Joppa is pro- Sperry & Co.'s, Post, ‘handled ee CHES. dis, s. dis. Baxter’s Adjastabic, mi nickeled De ewe wee aa, 30 gressing well and Baron Rothschild, who Coffee, Parkers eee 20) CAG Gel Ne 50 intends establishing a colony of Jews on P. 8. & W. Mfg. Co.’s Malleables.... 40) Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought,........ in tee ot es ted, Meine Oe) = ee eee eto houses for their use. MOLASSES GATES. Ge thee eT OE EE 60410 | Pumps, Cistern............ a 7 &10 Seomenn es Gemmene.......... 5... ae | Gerews, New lGs....................... 70&10 BE N G R A \ ] ] N G Enterprise, self-measuring Ne ae Casters, Bed ad a B0&10610 amenent, AMETIOON Rigas wane bees. .... 111... kk... 1 85} Forks, hoes, rakes and all steel goods...... 6 &10 It pays to illustrate your business. Portraits, , Wire nails, base...... .... ......25- ceseeeees 1 90 METALS, Cuts of Business Blocks, Hotels, Factories, Advance over base: Steel. Wire. PIG TIN. Machinery, ete., made to order from photo | @).......... 2.222... on eens coon ee Base Base | Pig ioe: ea en eee ee eco aay ou 26C graphs. Oe cee oe — 2 Pig Bars EE THE TRADESMAN COMPANY, 10 5 Duty sheet Ke per ane 15 35 poune Cages... 6 Grand Rapids, Mich. 15 TS SE A 15 Se SOLDER. < 20 Ceres ereecrocese seve * x 25 60 xtra ee... 15 Hardware Price Current. os s | ata on a a 60 90 aan n the market indicated by nrivate brands These prices are for cash buyers, who 1 00 1 20| vary according to composition. pay promptly and buy in full packages. i 80 i 60 Coommem.......... evceasiegs due per pound AU@URS AND BITS. dis. 60 Gt Maletee........-.................. 13 Se eee Te ua 60 - % %5 TIN—MELYN GRADE. Ce 40 90 90 | 10x14 IC, Charcoal...........--..+-+-seee eee $750 coma, Senmeme..... 25 85 75 | 14x20 io MO Dantes eteeete ese eter eeeees 7 50 Jennings’, imitation 0.0 50&10 ; ¢ : = rr I te TEED TET at Sete eee eee scene : = AXES. 85 70| Each additional X on this grade, $1.75. First — oS Bees... $750 1 00 80 TIN—ALLAWAY GRADE. B. Bronz@............-++++- 12 00 115 90 | 10x14 IC, Charcoal ............0..-. sse-ee. 86 7% B B.S. Sieek....... Setne cena 8 50 ~ C; ; 2a aa 175 175 14x30 IC, seat sesipyeettedsineemsedty 6 % BARROWS. dis. Ohio Tool Co. " pa 8. ) 14x20 4x20 IX’ a ‘ rarer tte 9 35 Railroad ........2-.-ceeeesseese eee oons 8 14 00 | Sciota Bench.-7..-,-7...sscscessece cesses Bach sdditional X on this grade 81.50. Garden...... Fe eee ee ee cewe ne ens bet 30 00 Sandusky — Co.'s, fancy..............00. ROOFING PLATES BOLTS. dis. ee Ge weer 4 «6«* «(Wercemer.................. 6 50 ee ree cee sea be eee cp oene 50&10 Bane Rule a Level _ "8, wood. &10 | 14x20 TX, . Geter edanue ccance 8 50 Gurieas mee ee 75&10 PAN! fal, * idea cg ana 13 50 ee eee sae Mee | ew, Awe... dis.60—10 | 14x20 IC ‘* Allaway Grade........... 6 00 ian. oo aon dis. ee eae 7 50 siete, RIVETS. “dis. |20x231IC, “ ss Oe na ay 12 50 Well, plain.. eon ene See... 2 rx, ' _ OF eos anole 15 50 Well, swivel. . Copper Rivets and and Burs eee Ueweueen cock 50—10 x BOILER SIZE TIM PLATE. an AC Wood's j salons aa ed; Nos, 5 to = 10 20 iax3t IX Dede Meu ge cen ade we se saan 15 Cast Loose Pin, figured 70& | ‘B” Wood’s irene to 27... 9 20| 14x56 Ix, for No. 8 Boilers, | per pound 18 Wrought anon bright 5ast joint.......... 60&10' Broken sade c¢ per pound aien 14x60 Ix, Ss aa 8 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. Michigan Tradesman Official Organ of Michigan Business Men’s Association. A WEEELY JOUBNAL DEVOTED TO THE Retail Trade of the Wolverine State, Published at 100 Louis St., Grand Rapids, — BY — THE TRADESMAN COMPANY, One Dollar a Year, - Postage Prepaid, ADVERTISING RATES ON APPLICATION, Communications invited from practical busi- ness mer. Correspondents must give their full name and address, not necessarily for publication, but as & 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. "When writing to any of our advertisers, please say that you saw their advertisement in THE MicHIGAN TRADESMAN. E. A. STOWE, Editor. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1892, KNIGHT-ERRANTS OF TO-DAY. A journalist connected with a promi- nent American newspaper (the New York Herald), after having had himself inoculated with cholera michrophytes, has gone to Hamburg to test the value of the supposed antidote to the pesti- lence raging there. In order to push his experiment to the utmost proof, he must live with and nurse the cholera patients and drink the poisonous waters of the Elbe. Opinion is divided as to whether his conduct is most foolhardy or most heroic. In either case he is a latter-day knight-errant. Probably the most romantic era of human society was that period in medieval Europe known as the Age of Chivalry. Europe was at that time im- mersed in ignorance and superstition. There was not a government by the people or any free institutions on the earth. Gunpowder and printing had not been invented. The one dragged down the giant from his physical supe- riority over the dwarf; the other put letters in the reach of all and destroyed the prerogatives of the few who could read over the masses of the unlettered. But these great and potential agencies of human liberty, these mighty promoters of human rights, were unknown. Nevertheless, there were not wanting brave, generous and self-sacrificing men who were desirous of righting human wrongs and of relieving human suffer- ings. Outof such laudable aspirations and noble dispositions arose the knight- errantry which has furnished so many glowing passages for the Storybooks and poetry of the Middle Ages. It was a time when the most potential right was that of might and the law most in foree was that of the strongest. Every great lord was a robber who preyed on his weaker neighbors, whom he plundered of their pretty wives and daughters as well as of their material wealth. Every castle was a fortress and a prison. This was the solid foundation for the old-time stories of captive maidens held in en- chanted castles and guarded by drag- ons, griffins and other mythic monsters. It was to kill these dragons and to re- lease the fair captives that induced the knights to mount their steeds, place | the present, it is likely to be resumed at | excitable wagging of histongue. Speak- their lances in rest and ride forth over |@ more favorable opportunity, particu- | ing unadvisedly with the lips is a com- the country. Doubtless the knight-errants of old | | aia some useful service, but they are only of interest as the heroes of the | gorgeous stories of medi:eval Europe. | | increase their gold holdings. larly as it seems to be the policy of the principal European countries to steadily British Government eventually decide to accede to the wishes of India and es- Cervantes, in his immortal “Don Quix- tablish a gold standard for that Empire, ote,’? has made knight-errantry sufficient- ly ridiculous, and his delightful satire, written in the decline of the romantic | age, is credited with having struck the | ancient profession of chivalry its death- blow. But knight-errantry is not dead. Any romantic profession which can survive | the stern and Savage sarcasm of the everyday commonplace of modern life is immortal. The knight-errant of to- day, like his prototype of the Middle Ages, is, in the estimation of sober rea- son, always engaged in a wild and fruit- | less quest. He braves every peril, dares every danger. He has little hope of material gain, expecting no reward save fame, and is sense of duty, actuated only by a or often by a mere desire for romantic adventure. Such knight-errants are the newspaper re- porters who explore the Arctic regions or the heart of tropical continents, or who traverse alone desert wastes to bring to the press the earliest news of events in the wilds of Asia, or who deliberately plunge into the infection of a cholera- stricken city in order to test the efficacy of a new specific for the terrible disease. Knight-errants, too, are the missiona- ries who penetrate the fastnesses of the most distant countries to preach religion, or devote themselves to voluntary ban- ishment in the lepers’ island or in the camps and hospitals of plague-stricken patients, to nurse the wretched victims. These are the knight-errants of the nine- teenth century, and never did knight of old display more daring courage, more devoted constancy, more desperate en- terprise and more heroic firmness than characterize these, their aftertypes. In this boasted century there are still drag- ons and giants of ignorauce and super- stition which bar the way to human progress. The knight-errant is needed to vanquish them. He is a “crank.” of course, but sometimes cranks are needed for a great work. A crank may be a genius, he may prove a hero, he may turn outamartyr. The names of such go high on the rolls of fame, and not a few of these glorious names are those of journalists. THE STOPPAGE OF GOLD EXPORTS. It is now announced from the great financial centers that exports of gold to Europe have about ceased for the present. The crops of the country are beginning to move and the shipments are increas- ing, while imports, which were very large for several months, are falling off considerably, owing to the cholera in Europe. About the only danger of further gold exports to be apprehended is the possi- bility of a demand from Austria, where there is much need of gold, owing to the resumption in that country of gold pay- ments and the rehabilitation of the cur- rency. Should the Austrian Bank offer | to pay large premiums, it doubtless would get the gold, but otherwise there is a reasonable certainty that there will be no further gold exports this season. But while the outflow of gold from this country to Europe has stopped for the demand for gold would be redoubled, and the attacks upon the holdings of the United States would, undoubtedly, be frequent and protracted. The question of suicides has up toa late date been one which has occupied the consideration of life insurance com- panies. The courts, however, have held SO persistently in favor of paying losses of whatever character that litigation on account of self-murder has almost alto- gether ceased, and the companies have dropped the suicide clause out of their policies generally. The tables of the ex- perience of the twenty-seven American companies, collected for some years, show that 1.34 per cent. of losses were suicides. In the lately published expe- rience of the Washington Life Insurance Company 214 per cent. of all its losses were said to be due tothis cause. These tables also show that suicide is more frequent with the young than with the oid. There is reason to believe that the increased mortality from suicides is due to the liberality of the companies and to the decisions of the courts. ee It is surprising how many things turn out to be infallible preventives for chol- era. in Hamburg it is said that hardly one of the brewery employes has been attacked by the cholera. And the peo- ple of Herefordshire, England, say that there has never been a death from chol- era in that county because they all drink hard cider. The Excitable Man. Behind the counter, in the business office, in an argument, or on the battle field, the excitable man is a veritable nuisance. He is the fellow who goes off half-cocked, and when he opens his mouth always puts his foot in it. Wise people are very careful that they don't get associated with him in any kind of business. If he is a foreman anywhere he harasses everyone under him and does little good for them above him. He doesn’t know how to handle horses or men, for he makes them both balky and doesn’t get out of them half that is in them. The excitabie manisa failure, for he jumps at conclusions and becomes en- thusiastic over trifles. Those are to be pitied who serve under him, and the ex- citable who serves is also a nuisance to the boss. The excitable man is always using his gab, such as it is. He forgets what is often written, that the man who speaks too little is very rare. The wise man’s words are as goads, few and well- ordered. Every reader can bear testi- mony to what we say. He can count several in his own circle who are faulty in this matter, perhaps himself. The cure for this weakness is honest thought. “Think twice before you speak once’’ has been commended and disobeyed in all the generations. All stuttering comes from wanting to say too much and saying it too quickly. The gun that goes off half-cocked we throw away. It is dan- gerous. The same disposition should be made of the excitable man. Send him to the rear. Manya merchant has lost a good customer and much money by the mon error and as destructive to our peace | and prosperity as it is common. The Should the | cool calm fellow dosen’t tell half he thinks of persons and things. It would never do; the fat would be all the time in the fire. You have made hasty and ugly re- marks about somebody. You have done more than that. Yuu have made them your enemy forever. Ifyou area tailor, you’ll make no more jackets for them. Your tongue closed that account. Swell your income by good words, for it is not abad way. Magnify the good and let the evil pass. Geo. R. Scorr. The Hardware Market. General Trade—September closes with a generally satisfactory condition of things in the hardware market and with a large volume of business. Seasonable goods being, as usual at this time, in great demand, dealers have found it quite difficult to keep full stocks. In potato scoops, potato forks, and many other lines, the demand has been very large. In the matter of prices, the mar- ket continues in the same general condi- tion as for several weeks, with but few changes to note. Cut Nails—There is a fair but not heavy volume of business, and prices are well maintained. Less than four mills are to-day making cut nails. The result is, competition is curtailed and prices are firmer, $1.80 being the ruling price in this market for ordinary specifica- tions. Wire Nails—The market for wire nails continues somewhat irregular, with a downward tendency. Nearly all the large mills are again in operation, and the strife for business may lead to lower prices. $1.80 to $1.90 rates are the pres- ent quotations. Barbed Wire—The demand for wire seems to be on the increase, but the price goes the other way. $2.40 to $2.50 for painted and 45¢e advance for galvanized cap be obtained by prompt cash buyers. Bar Iron—Mo change in the iron mar- ket, but dealers are now able to get in full assortments, as most factories are now in full blast. Sheet Iron—A though nearly all the mills have started up, itis still diffieult to secure prompt shipments, as most of them were so filled up with orders. Great difficulty is experienced in keeping in hand all gauges, the result of which is much firmer prices with the manufac- turer. Jobbers quote No, 27 at $3.25, with a reduction of 10¢ less on each gauge heavier. Rope—The rope market is not firm. Present prices of 13¢ for manila and 9¢ for sisal can be shaded for desirable or- ders. Glass—Every indication points to high- er prices for window glass, but, as yet, no advance has been announced. 80 and 10 per cent. discount for single and double by the box is the present dis- count. Ammunition—The recent decline on powder seems to be quite general, all makers having reduced their price. The indications are that powder will be low- er before it is higher, as there seems to be a small-sized fight on, and, unless it is healed over, lower figures must rule. On loaded shells the price is fully main- tained, as the main trouble is toget them. The demand is greater than ever and all of the leading makers are far behind in their orders. Shot—Prices are fully maintained at $1.50 and $1.75. A Word in Defence of the Crank. From the Keystone. The name suggests long hair, sunken eyes, a beard ten days old, a soiled linen duster, trousers two inches short of the fashion, a battered high hat or else a dis- reputable slouch, an appetite for pickles and indigestible sundries, late hours over a candle, and abnormal conditions gen- erally. It may suggest a different type to each reader, but in every case it presents to the mind an individual differing from ordinary humanity in essential features to such a degree as to entirely remove him from the pale of our sympathies. He focuses upon himself the inborn hu- man antipathy to the uncanny; he is ‘“‘with us, but not of us.’’ We want tosay a word in defense of this much despised and abused type of hu- manity. Wedo not have in mind the crank who is only narrowly removed from actual insanity,and who needs no defense; for the mantle of charity should gracious- ly shield such from unthinking scorn. But we aver that the man who rides a ligitimate hobby, and who is more or less a crank in proportion to the persistence and vigor of his riding, is in the van of the progress of the world. He is the ex- plorer of the wilderness of ignorance, the crusader against the foes of light, the reviled apostle of new dispensations in literature, art, science and all the vast field of human activity. Did you ever stop to think—you who have exercised a cheap wit in the abuse of cranks—that almost every great in- vention, valuable new theory, philanthrop- ic movement, and other form of vital action for good, has proceeded from one who in his day was regarded as a crank? Call the list of all the great reformers: summon the shades of all those who by force of their intellects in the various fields of mechanical invention have ad- vanced the progress of humanity by many centuries; gather together the dreamers and theorists whose genius has foreseen and solved the problems in social and political economy; and each and all will be found to have been regarded as ‘**mad”’ if they lived in an earlier day, and a ‘“‘crank”’ if they survived to this year of grace. When Cyrus W. Field proposed to lay a cable across the Atlantic; when St. Paul, at Athens, declared the coming of ‘tthe unknown God;’’? when a brave English surgeon introduced vaccination into the scieuce of medicine; when a far- seeing American proposed to build up a watchmaking industry in the United States; when any original thought has been advanced at any time in the world’s history, Complacent Ignorance has held its fat sides and shouted in laughing scorn, ‘‘Crank! Crank!” The outcome of crankiness justifies its existence. Indeed, success in any di- rection is the result of a mild form of in- sanity, says a distinguished author. Crankiness is only complete devotion to one idea, and success in any field hangs upon singleness of purpose. The crank errs, in the public estimation, in subordi- nating or entirely ignoring every other duty to the one nearest his heart; but while he thus makes himself obnoxious to the general public (which demands entertainment from various phrases of human character instead of studying only one aspect), the result of this singleness of purpose on the part of the crank is to add to the weal of mankind. He sacri- fices the good opinion of his fellows for the larger appreciation of posterity, He is a martyr to his convicticns. In ad- vance of his time, beyond the sympathy of contemporaries, he hears the jeers and laughter in hope of the final crown. Think better, then, of this pioneer of the higher civilzation—the much abused crank. _ 2 <> From Out of Town. Calls have been received at THE TRADESMAN Office during the past week from the following gentlemen in trade. Thurston & Co., Central Lake. I. J. Quick, Allendale. N. F. Miller, Lisbon. H. Sissons, Central Lake. L. Henderson, Holland. A. D. Martin, Biteley. D. Wellbrook, Rockford. Gowell & Burton, West Troy. Samuel Morris, Cross Village. J. F. Cadwell, Battle Creek. H. E. Hogan, South Boardman. J. A. Wagner, Eastmanville. A. Cohen, White Cloud. E. J. Gordon, South Boardman. >. Americans in Europe. The exodus of Americans to Europe for the present year beats all previous records. The European edition of the New York Herald figures the number of Americans in Europe during August amounted to 150,000, and that during the four months from April 1 they spent about $70,000,000. It is said that the fashionable tailors, milliners and cos- tumers in our great cities are seriously alarmed at the prospects for their fall trade, as all these people come home with heavy stocks of clothing on band. has PAMPHLETS CUTS for BOOM EDITIONS For the best work, at reasonable prices, address THE TRADESMAN COMPANY. HENRY S. ROBINSON. CHAS. E. Boots, Shoes SMITH. RICHARD G. ELLIOTT. H: S: ROBINSONAx>COMPANY: Manufacturers and Wholesale Dealers in “= Rubbers, 99, 101, 103, 105 Jefferson Ave., DETROIT, MICH. State Agents for the Candee Rubber Co. At the suggestion of several merchants I announce that the dates on which I shall be at Sweet’s Hotel, Grand Rapids, will always appear in this advertisement. 1 shall be at Sweet’s Hotel on Thurs- day and Friday, October 13 and 14, to close out Ulsters and Overcoats at close prices, and shall have my regular line of suitings. Any of the trade desiring to see me before above dates, kindly drop ine a line at my permanent address Box 346, Marshall Mich, And I will soon be with you, and if I haven’t got what you want, thank you for sending for me. The many mail orders sent in to the house from all parts of the country for Prince Albert Coats and Vests bespeaks their excellence. WILLIAM CONNOR, Representative of Michael Kolb & Son, Wholesale{Clothiers, Rochester, NY. uo GRADES. ONE-POUND PACKAGES. WOOLSON SPICE CO, Roasters of | High Grade Coffees, TOLEDO, O. Bindi tn dlsctach, Lion Coffee, o. D. JAVA AND STANDARD ARE BULK COFFEES, WHILE LION IS SOL?? ONLY THEIR EXTENSIVE THEIR BEST RECOMMENDATION. COFFEES -- OF KVERY KIND.-- GU BADER ARE J aVa, and ~—4 Standard Maracaibo — MERCHANTS ¢ WE INVITE A TRIAL OF THESE THREE MARACAIBO IN USE is WRITE YOUR JOBBER FOR PRICES OR ADDRESS rer T. 8. FREEMAN, Distributing Agent, 101 Ottawa St. Tel. 414-1R. Grand Rapids, Mich. 10 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. Drugs # Medicines. State Board of Pharmacy. One Year—Jacob Jesson, Muskegon. Two Y ames Vernor, Detroit. Three Years—Ottmar Eberbach, Ann Arbor four Years—George Gundrum, Ionia. Five Years—C. A, Bugbee, Cheboygan. President—Jacob Jesson, Muskegon. Secretary—Jas. Vernor, Detroit. Treasurer—Geo. Gundrum, Ionia. Meetings for 1892 — Marquette, Aug. 31; Lansing, November 1. Michigan State Pharmaceutical Ass’n. President—Stanley E. Parkill, Owosso. Vice-Presidents—I. H. L. Dodd, Buchanan; F. W. R. Perry, Detroit; W. H. Hicks, Morley. Treasurer—Wm. H. Dupont, Detroit. Secretary—C. W. Parsons, Detroit. Executive Committee—H. G. Coleman, Kalamazoo; Jacob Jesson, Muskegon: F. J. Wurzburg and John E. Peck, Grand Rapids; Arthur Baseett, Detroit. Local Secretary—James Vernor. Next place of meeting—Some resort on St. Clair River; time to be designated by Executive Committee. Grand Rapids Pharmaceutical Society. President, W. R. Jewett, Secretary, Frank H. Escott, Regular Meetings—First Wednesday evening of March June, September and December, Grand Rapids Drug Clerks’ Association. President, F. D. Kipp; Secretary, W. C. Smith. “Muskegon Drug Clerks’ Association. President N. Miller; Secretary, A. T. Wheeler. HOW TO FIX RETAIL PRICES. Written for THE TRADESMAN. In all well-conducted wholesale enter- prises, whether pertaining to the manu- facture, sale or transportation of pro- ducts, it is always found necessary to have some well-defined system of deter- mining the market value of goods and the rates governing distribution of the same. In this way prices are arranged, so that, while they allow fair profits to the pro- ducer and common carrier, they also se- cure an active and continued demand on the part of the consumer. It would seem as though a similar sys- tem ought to prevail in the adjustment of prices in retail lines of trade, for the mutual benefit of buyer and seller; but it is evident to the casual observer that this is not the case in general; and, for want of such system, there is a lack of equity in the distribution of goods of prime necessity. Of course, no horizon- tal scheme of uniform per cent. of profit can be applied to all classes of goods (such as the Patrons of Industry have favored), for that would be worse than the haphazard way now in vogue, added to the vicious and demoralizing cutting practices of the present day. Among the majority of dealers there is little thought given to the subject of how fair- ly to exchange the products of civiliza- tion that vary so widely in their nature and importance, so that there shall be the nearest approach to equity between the seller and the purchaser. Custom and precedent have so far ruled, but with a wide range caused by personal whims and ignorance of relative values, for, between those who aspire to lead in trade, and are a law unto themselves, and those who, for lack of a better rule, follow the judgment of others, prices have been, and will continue to be, un- equal and unjust to a large proportion of buyers. I have noticed that, in the Eastern States, and alsoin many places west of Michigan, the retail prices of many staple goods are much higher than in this State, in one case fully 50 per cent. They could not have been based on wholesale cost, since that need not vary more than would cover the expense of transportation. The only way to ac- count for the difference is the varying methods used to adjust values according to the custom of each locality. I have also noticed a like discrepancy in prices between towns in this State that were but a few miles apart; and, though com- petition was sharpin general, it did not seem to affect all lines of goods equally. It is, no doubt, true that no two men, starting in business at the same time and place, and carrying the same classes of goods will uniformly agree in a scale of prices unless they have come to a mutual understanding to do so. What they ought to do is to have some system upon which to determine the relative selling values of their stock. If it does not work satisfactorily at first it may be modified to suit the varying conditions of trade. Only one exception need be made, and that is concerning goods that, to prevent them from becoming dead stock, must be sold without regard to cost. Those who are bred to commercial life will, in arranging prices, consider cer- tain conditions which necessarily affect values beyond the actual first cost. In determining what per cent. of profit is to be properly added to the cost of different articles, it is necessary to make a classi- fication of them according to some scale that shall, on an average, produce a reasonable profit to the dealer, and, at the same time, be just to the consumer. Staple goods, which are in the most fre- quent demand, may well be considered as a base line upon which to construct a scaie of prices. These require a less margin of profit to produce a given sum in comparison with all other classes; and, on the principle of ‘‘quick sales and small profits,’’ become a financial equal- izer in business. Often, however, the line is drawn so fine in the heat of com- petition that the profit falls entirely into the pocket of the purchaser. Here com- mences the demoralizing of prices, so often complained of by the dealers, who constitute the conservative commercial element. The evil does not stop here, but ex- tends into other kinds of goods which are in less demand, each dealer taking differ- ent articles and making them leaders, carrying littleif any profit. I once knew acase of a druggist in a thriving town who made a leader of morphine and had the cheek to advertise it so as to draw trade from surrounding towns. The majority of consumers, seeing the oppor- tunity, take advantage of this foolish rivalry, and, reasoning from false anal- ogy, indulge a feeling that the former prices were exorbitant, and the lattera result of reluctant and forced concession. This engenders an animosity against merchants as a class, built up by jeal- ousy and a sense of supposed wrongs, that, fostered by wild-eyed cranks for a purpose, blossom into partisan theories wholly at variance with facts and the spirit of our institutions. When once the dealer has puta fair price on staples, based on the theory that he who buys oftenest and in the largest quantities deserves the most lib- eral concessions, he may very properly fix a scale of values on the remainder that shall secure a larger per cent. of profit. Articles of luxury seldom called for, perishable goods, and those that are salable only at certain seasons, as well as goods which are subject to the caprices of fashion—all must be sold on wider margins of profit to make business self- sustaining. If each one carefully clas- sifies his stock, according to what it costs to sell it, the interests of the pub- lic will be carefully considered and the prices fixed will represent actual value. Less than this no consumer has a right to demand—more than this is injustice to the purchaser. A mutual understanding of the equities of trade would reconcile the consumer with the distributor on many points heretofore misunderstood. Much thought and discussion has been expended by the wisest members of trade organizations to devise a plan which shall prevent excessive competition in prices, which has stood so long in the way of commercial prosperity. Some scheme of relief would long ago have been adopted were it not that the craze of rival dealers to outbid one another has become a panic and the voice of the conservative element was ineffectual to stay the demoralizing influence. We can scarcely hope that prices will soon be put back toa just basis unless some new conditions arise to strengthen values of all commodities. Distributors have long been doing business on a fall- ing market, and against an increasing number of competitors. The limit of lowest prices having been once reached and the masses of our population again on the way to increased prosperity (as is now quite plainly indicated), it is reasonable to hope for a favorable change in the not distant future. Then will come the most favorable time for retail dealers to join in some equitable system of fixing prices which shall end all demoralizing cutting practices and, also, the haphaz- ard way of. doing business so prevalent at least for the past decade. S. P. WAITMARSH. The Drug Market. Gum Camphor—In good demand and price is advancing rapidly. It is esti- mated that the total shortage in stocks of erude over the same period of 1891 is 13,660 piculs, of which 2,400 were lost at sea. Strychnine—Advanced. Buchu Leaves—In small supply and higher. Oil Cubebs —Declined. Linseed Oil—Declined 3c per gallon. Powdered Sugar of Milk—Lower. Lycopodium—Again advanced and is tending higher. Carbolic Acid—Lower. The cholera excitement is nearly over and the de- mand is decreasing. Bromide of Potash—Has advanced on account of a large demand for export. Sennega Root—Very scarce and has ad- vanced. Oil Anise—Higher. Gum Opium—Dull and lower. Morphia—Unchanged. The combination has again advanced the price of cream tartar and tartaric acid. $100--Reward--$100. The readers of this paper will be pleased to learn that there is at least one dreaded disease that science has been able to cure in all its stages and thatis catarrh. Hall’s Catarrh Cure is the only positive cure now known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh being a constitutional dis- ease, requires a constitutional treatment. Hall’s Catarrh Cure is taken internally, actin directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the sys tem. thereby destroying the foundation of the disease, and giving the patient strength by building up the constitution and assisting na- ture in doing its work. The proprietors have so much faith In its curative powers that they offer One Hundred Dollars for any case that it fails tocure. Send for list of testimonials. Address F J CHENEY & CO, Toledo, O. t2"Sold by Druggists, 75c. GINSENG ROOT. PECK BROS., "haewis 2 GRAND RAP MICHIGAN MINING SCHOOL. A State School of Mining Engineering, giving prac- tical instruction in mining and allied subjects. Has summer or~ in surveying, Shop penalties and Field Geology. ratories, shops and stamp mill well iste uipped. Tuition free. For catalogues apply to the Director, Houghton, Michigan. | Playing Cards WE ARE HEADQUARTERS SEND FOR PRICE LIST. Daniel Lynch, 19 S. Ionia St., Grand Rapids. Do You want a Cut OF YOUR STORE For use on Letter Heads, Bill Heads, Cards, Ete.? 4 <> rma ene tk CARPE Ae We can make you one similar to sample for $6. THE TRADESMAN CoO, Engravers and Printers, GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN. SUHLOSS, ADLER & CO, MANUFACTURERS AND JOBBERS OF Pants, Shirts, Overalls ——AND—— Gents’ Furnishing Conds, REMOVED TO 23-25 Larned St., East DETROIT, MICH. Dealers wishing to look over our line are in- vited to address our Western Michigan repre- = Ed. Pike, 272 Fourth avenue, Grand apids. “The Kent.” HIS new and handsomely furnished hotel, located directly across the street from the Unior Depot, is now open to the public. It is conducted ——— on the European plan. Rooms with steam heat and electric bells range from 50 cents to $1 per day. First-class restau- rant and dining room in connection. Free trans- fer of baggage from Union Depot. The patronage of traveling men and country merchants is earnestly solicited, as we are con- fident our hotel and its service will commend themselves to ail seeking clean, quiet, and home- like accommodations. BEACH & BOOTH, Props, 4 4 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. Wholesale Price Current. Advanced—Cream tartar, strychnia, buchu leaves, linseed oil, lycopodium, g potash, senega root, oil anise, tartaric acid. Declined—Oil cubebs, po. sugar milk, earbolic acid, chloride lime, gum opium. sum camphor, bromide ACIDUM. ee aoe ee @ 4 60 TINCTURES. xecht. tos.. 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M@ b saan oie ra a MPO os seca @ 8 Guaiacum, (po 30). @ % ee Crone 35 Bind, (0 &)........ @ 3 Frumenti, W., D. Co..2 00@2 50] Gudbear.... |.) |. 4 Mastic ... @ so D. B.R....-1 75@2 00 Cupri Sulph...... i 6 Myrrh, (po. 45 _@ -1 10@1 50] Dextrine......... ... 1 Om, Go 2 @).......- 1 7&@l1 80 Seite Co. 0. T1211 75@1 75 | Bther Sulph........... 6s@ 70 eee: es 2G 35 - Sey 1 75Q3 50 Emery, numbers @ “ vestnet =o = Sonshenare, x5 Due : aa . gg eR AN 6 Tragacanth ...... rate = ni Galll........ ‘ Ergota, (po.) 75....... 7@ 75 HERBA—In ounce packages. | Vini Oporto........... 1 25@2 00| Flake ee 1 15 sciaihiaen 25 See Ale............. Lae Rigg @ 2B fu stort ae SPONGES. Gelatin, Cooper + cree 7 S*0 Lobelia....... 33 | Florida sheeps’ wool oo 40@ 60 MgES sip | eat “Shoepe wooi” 2" | Glaseware dint, 7 aa i s Ox aceite 30 wa aiue, Brown.......... 15 Tanacetum, V 22] " wool carriage 1 10 Wee. ... 5... 183@ 2 a 25! extra ellow sheeps’ Crveeras .... 15%@ 2 ' ‘i idiiaiiias conten 85 Grana Paradisi ee os 2 Ot ee ee ET TST RS 2 oo, “oo ee == = — wool car- 6s | Hy draag Chior dite: @ & arbona Me. 9 Carbonate, K.&M.... W@ 2 Hard for slate use 6 se Ox Rubrum @ W Carbonate, Jennings.. 35@ 36) *0 0 1 40 “ Ammoniati.. @1 00 Gite MRR ace onenananns rene i Ungnentum. “6 &% Abeinthinm. ......... 3 50@4 00 SYRUPS. ™ Grereyrnm ......... @ 64 Amy; ae rae... .. in 1 Ataris... 50 — ..1 25@1 50 Amydalae, Amarac....8 00@S8 25 | Zingiber .................... oe Wagers... :.......... 75@1 00 BO ic ee 80@1 55 Ws oe rece ee 60 ian. Mesubl........ 3 80@3 90 Auranti Cortex....... 2 75@3 00 Herr! ee a Ge | tometer... 8... @4 70 OE oi a 3 25@3 50} Auranti —_ Sed meee ae 50 oo eee kde ee cee 6U0@ 65 CR ove ws Oe Gi eee Aroma. 50 ete Sees oe 70@ %% Cc. jophyiii esc ea eo 65@ 75 Similax ‘Otticinalis deca a 60 om ee. 7 80 Coder eee eed ee 3@ Ce. > 2 Arsen et Hy- en PCN oi. ys i. GF) Senees...................... OP Geeietom. .. .. eenenete eee een 1 10@1 15 Sclliae Dee eee a eee ie 50 5 cool peeis hestbisiii 10@ 12 NOS oa. 5 ss ao 45 ~ - ee cline se eee cara - = Sulph (bbl 2 Conium Mac.......... Oe TON ce ee: 2 cal Linea 90@1 00! Prunus virg................. 50] Mannia, S.F.......... 60@ 65 ——, % vp & W...1 6C@1 85 _s. 2& Cee ” 5@1 75 Moschus Canton.. @ 40 Myristica, No.1....... 65@ 70 Nux Vomica, (po 20) .. @ 10 Oe Sone... 2... |. : 22 — Saac, H. & P. D. 00 = Liq, N 1..C., “% gal om @2 00 Picis Liq., — @1 00 pin _ @ 8 Pil Spices. oa '80) . @ 50 Piper Nigra, (po. 2). @ 1 Piper Alba, (po ¢5) .. @ 3 oe @ 7 Plumbi Acet . 14@ 15 Pulvis Ipecac et opil. ig 10@1 20 Pyrethrum, boxes H & FD Ce., dis. .... @1 25 Fyrethram, pv........ W@ 3 Gussie 8@ 10 Quinia, _ oan... 2a German....20 @ 30 Rubia ee bee 12@ 14 Saccharum Lactispy. 23@ Sere 1 69@1 60 Sanguis Draconis..... 0@ Sapo, a 12@ 14 ee, 10@ 12 Yr ooo @ 15 Seidlitz Mixture...... @ Si —. De ieee voce us @ 18 - a a @ B = accaboy, De i @ 35 Snuff. iuiaia, De. Voes @ 35 Soda Boras, (po. it). 10@ 11 Soda et Potass Tart... 27@ 30 Soda Carb............ “1%@ 2 Roda, Gi-Carh......... 5 poae, Age... 3%4@ 4 Soda, Sulphas......... @ 2 Spts. Ether Co ........ 50@ 55 “ Myreta Dom..... @2 25 “ Byres ime... .. @3 00 . ini Rect. bbl. | Less 5¢ gal., cash ten on Strychnia Crystal..... 1 35@1 40 Sulphur, Sebs......... 2%@ 3% moe... 24@ 3 omer... 8@ 10 Terebenth Venice..... BQ Ww Theobromae .......... 400 @ 4 Venus. ......... 9 00@16 00 Samet Sule... ....... 7@ Ors, Gal Whale, winter. . 70 Lard, oxtra..... 68 ee 48 Linseed, pureraw.... 44 47 Lindseed, boiled . 47 50 Neat’s Foot, winter ramen... 50 60 SpiritsTurpentine.... 34 40 PAINTS. bbl. Ib. Red Venetian.......... 1% 2@3 Ochre, yellow Mars....1% 2@4 per... 1% 2@3 Putty, ———- - 244 24%@3 ‘* strict ee. a. 2% os Vermilion Prim e Amer- ian... 138@16 Vermilion, English. . 65@70 Green, Peninsular..... 70@75 Lead, i 7 oe : wate... 7 Whiting, white Span. i Wag Gilders...... @% White, Paris American 6 Whiting, Paris Eng. Pioneer Prepared Painti gi Swiss Villa —, # Paints . 1 00@1 20 VARNISHES, No. 1 Turp Coach.. - coat 20 xtra Tore. ........... 1 70 Caaen Bomy........- 3 Os 00 No. 1 Turp Furn...... 1 00@1 10 Eutra Turk Damar....1 55@1 60 a 70@75 5; Japan Dryer, No. ‘Y HAELTINE & PERKINS DRUG C0. Importers and Jobbers of DRUGS CHEMICALS AND PATENT MEDICINES DEALERS IN Paints, Oils 2 Varnishes. Sole Agents for the Celebratea SWISS WILLA PREPARED PAINTS. Fall Line of Staple Drug, We are Sole Preprietors of pists’ Sundries Weatherly’s Michigan Catarrh Remedy, We Have in Stuck and Offer a Full Line of WHISKIES, BRANDIES, GINS, WINES, RUMS. We sell Liquors for medicinal purposes only. We give our personal attention to mail orders and guarante? satisfaction. All orders shipped and invoiced the same day we receive them. NE & PERKINS eons HAL Send a trial order. DaUG GO, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. 12 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. Grocery Price Current. The quotations given below are such as are ordinarily offered buyers who pay promptly and buy in full packages. AXLE GREASE. doz gross are 55 6 00 er Oe... 75 9 CO Poee...........- 50 5 50 aeere............. 9 00 eee 75 8 00 es .. .......- 55 6 00 BAKING POWDER. Acme. s ~¢ cans, 3 doz a. 45 ce 85 1 + ' a. 1 60 ee 10 Arctic. 4 : CANS.... .....--...-4.. 60 ie eran 1 20 > gs + eo as 9 60 Dr. Price’s. per doz Dime cans.. 90 4-02 . 133 6-0Zz 1 90 8-0Z ..2 12.0z "oe 16-0z " at 2%4-lb 11 40 4-lb , te 5-lb _ oo 10-Ib 1 80 | Galion 40 £0 1b 1 50 | Telfer’s, 1 lb. cans, doz. 45 | “ce % lb. sc . 85 } ’ -_ * *“ .. 150] BATH BRICE. | 2 dozen in case. per English . oo Bristol ee 80 | Ck 70 | BLUING. Gross | arcue, 400 ovels.......... 4 00 eT a 40] ' ints, round 10 50 | o. 2, sifting box... 2 7% | = Beas, eC -.. £0 - me 5 aa oi [ence ............ 4) BROOMS. _ a oo 2 00 ee 2 od No. Jarpet _ Parlor Gem.. . 300 Common Whis 1 00 Fancy . 1 20 Warehouse...... . = BRUSHES. Stove, No. Co 12 me. 1 50 s.r, 13 Rice Root Scrub, 2 row.... 85 Rice Root Serub, Brow.... 1 @ Tames, Goens............ 1 50 CANDLES iotel, 20 ib. bokes.......... © tar, 40 _ beac ce 9 ................... & =... CANNED GOODS. FISH. Clams. ie Meek, 1... ........ 1 15 re... 1 90 Clam Chowder. ee... 2 00 Cove 7. Standard, _............ 90 2 1b. 12 Lobsters. Star, =. 240 __.................326 Penie,V1b.....- 2... ..2 00 —_— 2 90 Mackerel. Standard, ilb. | 1 05 a. lL LL Mustard, 2 _ ......... 2 i Tomato Sauce, 2]b... 2 25 Soused, 2 Ib : . 23 Salmon. Columbia River, a.... ...18 ' oo... 1% sie... Ue ' -..... Sardines. American 4s : 4”%@ 5 co. .. 648 7 Imported e ris -— * - 11 RAISINS, Domestic, London layers, : crown. 1 & : 85 _ fer... ...: ».2 00 Loosre Muscatels. boxes..... 1 60 Forei Ondura, 29 Ib. boxes... @ 9% Sultana, 20 Valencia, _ @ 8% PRUNES. ooh kd cuakey pace @ California, _—oe.......... 90100 25 Ib. bxs. | 80x90 oe 70x80 se . 60x70 2 ae... @ rer ENVELOPES, XX rag, white. aie... $1 75 a 1 60 No. 1,6 1 65 ma 2 6....... eoveee. | OO xx wood, white, aie... 13 as. 123 Manilla, white. eit. 1 00 Cee iar 95 Coin Mill No. 4 1 00 FARINACEOUS GOODS. Farina. me. hege.... 3% Hominy. co ee 8 00 Grits rh secheescuss 3 50 Lima Beans. — 4 Maccaroni and Vermicelli, Domestic, 12 lb. box... Imported: ed ei ee :10%@11 % Pear! Barley. SL s--- @Q2% Peas een Me 1 7 eee 2% Sago. ON oe, | eee 5 Wheat. aa LL. 5 i cla FISH--Salt. Bloaters, a Cod. a. Whole, Grand Bank.. Boneless, bricks ... ’ exon Boneless, strips.. ..... 64@8 Halibut. aes... 12 lerring. ces, coe... 3 2 Holland, pol. ie es lea ce 9 00 oe 65 Round Shore, % bbl ce 2% a ee 1 55 Scaled a — 16 Mackerel. mate... UL 423 No. 1, Sits. oe... 12 No. 2 ET 3 50 No. ? 10 Ibs eee elk 1 05 Fami y; $ ag = lbs 5 00 Peden 65 comma Russian, a... 45 t. No. 1, % bbls., 1001bs........ 6 50 Hae. 1, kite Mita 90 Whitefish. No. 1, % bbls., 100lbs........ 7 50 No. "if kits, 10 lbs oo a Family, 4 —— 100 lbs... kits 10 Ibs......... 40 pier og gl SARS ISIE FLAVORING EXTRACTS. Jennings’ DC. Lemon. Vanilla 2 - folding box... % 1% 30 ..1.00 1 50 4 os . .150 2 00 6 oz i ..2 00 3 00 8 oz ' ..3 00 4 00 Gunpowder. Austin’ 8 Rifle, cease... |... 4 50 ee... 250 - Crack § hot, kegs ..4 50 kegs 2 50 . oecteie eo oa o % “ 8 @ HERBS, Ne ie ie ee 15 PO ee. 15 INDIGO. Madras, 5 1b. boxes....... 55 S. F., 2, 3 and 5 lb. boxes. . 50 JELLY. 7 Ib. pails eee cee ee eee 85 30 beneus eeceneee 120 LICORICE. ee 30 bcc mcp gee EH EG ESI gale 25 ee 12 Condensed, : ‘dor Sede eae 1 2 iN ae ee 2 25 MATCHES. No. 9 sulphur.. 1 25 Anchor parlor.. av No. 2 home....... 4 20 mapers PArler..... .......... 400 MINCE MEAT 3 or 6 doz. in case perdosz.. 95 MEASURES. Tin, per dozen. oe... $1 75 Half _. eee cae 1 40 = iis secrer sees cease 70 ewer ees oe: eae 4 Half ee 40 Wooden, for vinegar, per doz. DE occ teec es cone 7 eee eee... ........... 47 oe ae 3 75 ee 2 2% MOLASSES. Blackstrap. Se... Cuba Baking. OEE oie cecctiienas 16 Porto Rico, eee... a. 20 Poe. 30 New Orleans a 18 aa 20 Extra good....... 25 sae. ey 30 2 40 cn half barrels. 3¢ extra OATMEAL. Deron 0... @5 60 Half barrels 100........... @2 % ROLLED OaTs. Barrels 180... ie @5 60 Rat tide... ... @2 % PICKLES, Medium. Barrels, 1,200 count........ &6 00 Half barrels, 600 count.... 3 50 Small, Barrels, 2,400 count. 7 00 Half bbls, 1,200 count 400 PIPES. Olgy, N Se 1% TD. Tot coums......,. 75 Cob, No. SC 1 25 POTASH, 48 cans in case, se camua pings te gn ne 4 00 Ponns Salt Oo.'s_......... 3 25 ROOT BEER =, por das... ...... 1 % 3 doz. case... .. 5 00 RICE, Domestic. Careline head... ............ o mo, t... ” No. 2 ee Imported. oeeen, mat... . . 6 ae. 5% ee 5 eee 5 SPICES, Whole Sifted, Sees teen, ET oC EI 10 Cass a, China in mats...... 8 Batavia in bund....15 ' Saigon in rolls...... 135 Cloves, ree... 22 ZeMeer..... 4... 8. 13 Mace Gale. 80 Nutmegs, — a 80 :- se Pepper Singapore black....15 “ 2B me 19 Pure Ground in Bulk, eee ie 1 Cassi a, Batavia EE: 20 Cloves, Ataborna mee “ee Mace adamant 0 Mustard, Eng. and Trieste. .2b ey eben No. 2 ae eee aap rete. 3D . Cayenme........... 25 “Absolute™ in Packages. 148 YS eee... ss ee. 84 155 aeeeere............. 84 155 coeeee..............,.. 84 155 Ginger, ie, 8 155 Be... 84 155 eee Leese tek ee = : > a... Sage...... cso ones Oe SAL SODA. meee, 1% Granulated, oaee...-. 2... 1% SEEDS. oe... @12% Canary, Smyrna. . Le 6 RI oss icicens eect 8 Cardamon, Malabar... 90 Hemp. Russian....... 4% Mixed Bird .......... 4% aeees, "oee....... : EN ae... 6 Cues Dene........... 30 STARCH. Corn, ee 6 ee 5X Gloss. 3 = pnehnges ieee cu. 5% (toe beh ene 5% e Ib ee 6 40 and 50 lb. boxes.......... 4% ae 5% BNUFP. Scotch, in bladders......... 37 Maccaboy, in jars........... 35 french Rappee, in Jars..... 43 soDa. Lied Awe ee ware a eoe i one ee a Rene *gngiish ete pee re SALT, =e Ib, sacks.. lel 25 -— | 2 00 3 - oneke. 1 85 ae 2 25 ee oe... 1 530 oo dairy in linen ae.. 2 ' on * 18 Warsaw. 56 Ib. dairy in drill bags.. a2 28 Ib. 18 Ashton. 56 lb. dairy in linensacks.. 75 Higgins. 56 1b. dairy in linen sacks 75 Solar Rock. ee 27 Common Fine. 30 meee 85 SALERATUSB. Packed 60 lbs. in box. wee. Mite nd, 31 Dwienes.... .. TO 3 00 SOAP, LAUNDRY, Allen B. bg ye 8 Brands, Ola Country, 86 1-Ib........ 3 20 Good Cheer, 60 1 Ng a 3 90 White Borax, 1 X-Ib...... 3 60 octor & Gamble. CO eee 2 80 Ivory, _ = ee dee -; % Se eae 00 aie i. eases aes 65 Mottled German. 15 Town eee ls 00 SCOURING AND POLISHING, Sapolio, kitchen, 3 doz... 2 50 hand, 3 ae i 2 50 SUGAR. a ioe... @ 5% eee @ 5% Powdered XXxx oa 64%Q 6% Standard.. @ 5% Granulated, medium... 5%@5.44 —s... |. 55¢@5 44 nen: | 5%4@5.31 Pee @4.94 White metre C........ @4 81 _ i @ 4% eee ce ek @ 3% Golden ‘ ee eee @ 7 Yellow . @ Less than’ bbls. ‘we advance SYRUPS. Corn. os. ey yf Bee 29 Pure Cane. dn, 19 oa 25 slice ying nC oN 30 EET GOODs, Ginger Pi ees 8 Sugar Creams......... 8 Frosted Creams....... 9 Graham Crackers..... 8% Oatmeal Crackers..... 8% VINEGAR, ‘0 Bie cece kl, 7 @8 8, 8 2 $1 for barrel. " WET MUSTARD. Sak, wer eel oo. 30 Beer mug, 2 doz incase... 1 7%5 YEAST mene vorbis. 1 00 Warner's “ .......02) -.1 00 Yeast Foam, per box....... -1 00 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMA Ne TEAS. JAPAN—Regular, SUN CURED. if CE @17 oe @20 oe 24 @26 We 32 @34 eee eae BASKET FIRED. eee 18 @w eee @% Coen @35 Extra choice, wire leaf @40 GUNPOWDER. Common to fair.......25 @35 Extra fine to finest....50 @65 Choicest fancy........75 @s5 OOLONG, @26 Common to fair... ... 23 @30 IMPERIAL, Common to fair.......23 @26 Superior tofine........ 30 @35 YOUNG HYSON. Common to fair....... 18 @26 Superior to fine....... 30 @40 ENGLISH BREAKFAST. Fair .. Choice Best... TOBACCOS. Fine Cut. Middleton’s Brands. mene Th 06 |... Cid Seyie... i... |. 31 Jas, @ Butler & Co.’s Brands. Something Good.............. 38 Out of Sight.. ae i . 2% HIDES PELTS and FURS Perkins & Hess pay as fol lows, prices nominal: HIDES. Green . oie Part Cured. ee @ Li @ i% ON 5 @5 Maps Green ........... 24 344 © Gerce........... @ 4% Calfskins, reese... .. 4@5 coree...... @iz Deacon akins.......... 10 @30 No. 2 hides \& off. PELTS DRCOTIINEM, 0... ...... 10 @2 Re 2 @ 9 WwooL, Weenee .. ............50 @as Unwashed .. .... ....10 @20 MISCELLANEOUS. ee 2 oe Grease butter ........ Switches ........ iste) Ginseng. ........ GRAINS and FEEDSTUFFS WHEAT. No. 1 White (58 Ib. test) 67 No. 1 Red (60 Ib. test) 67 MEAL, Meee... ws, 1 40 Gramuieted................ 1 70 FISH and OYSTERS. ¥. = eetaecantanaraas quotes as follow FRESH FISH @ @1 Ciscoes or Herring. 5 @6 Co aa @12 Fresh lobster, per te 2 Soft crabs, per doz...... 1 60 Shrimp, per gal oo 12 Cod LL oe Gite | No. 1 Pickerel..... ‘ @s | ee el at | Smoked White ... ... @7 OYSTERS—Cans, Fairhaven Counts... @35 7.2. Solees....... @30 Selects ....... ie @25 Beer... (222 — ............ @i9 SHELL @ooDs. jam per _ ...... 1 20@1 5t Clam ..- %@l1 CO 5. The setaes O11 Co. quotes as follows, in barrels, f. 0. b. Grand Rapids: Eocene.. Water W. ‘hite, ‘old test. WwW. W. Headlight, 150° Water White ........ % XN 4 mepims......... os Stove Gasoline........ 3% Cyllager.............. 27 @36 gene ..... ......... 18 8 e* ‘ @ @7 @ 6 21 Sea... FRESH MEATS. Swift & Company quote as fol- lows: % Pails unless otherwise noted R. Beef, carcass.......... 4@5 Pies... 62 Straight, in sacks oo. : . * bined quarters. . 5 @6 Sweet Cuba......... : ~ ines © coe 529] .. fore ... 3 @3% McGinty ——o 24 ts ‘“ barrels........ 5 40 « loins, No. 3 9 @ 9% 4 bbis....... 22 Graham “ sacks.... ... 2 00 BB anv as on ne ws @8 VWarey City........... 32 Rye . ach s 30 rOunds......... 5 @5% Danoe die a7 eae 2% ein NN @ 45 Torpedo ee 20 MILLSTUFFS. Pore tone... @il i in drums.... 19 Less "Shoulders ... @ 6% Yom Yom ...,....... 26 Car lots quantity | Sausage, — or head @ 4% Plug. — $14 00 $15 00 < Hiver ...... @ 4% Sorg’s Brands. Screenings .. .. 15 00 15 50 Seakioat ea s Middlings..... 16 00 16 50 Ce c © 8 Soe vi ale i > Mixed Feed... 19 00 19 50 Li SE 6 @7 OE cbc etk te uane ae. 2 . mens ally mouuy PWint............ 39 | Coarse meal 39 50 20 00 POULTRY. om MY. -------------+--- oT 48 Local dealers pay as follows: Scotten’s Brands. Less than car lots..........52 DRESSED. Kylo Leos deneeedsoccesee 25 OATS, PERRO. wee - (Cee loee Valley City . os 34 | Less than car lots........... 40 bel Finzer’s 8 ‘Brands, New oats, Ic less, Chiskens: 6 7 @8 Old Honesty.......... 40 AY. WO. ccs week 7 @8 oOny Ter, me [hat Timothy. car iots....10 G0; Tuskeys............... 11 @l2 No. 1 "fom tote ..... SI SG | Spring Duck.... ..... 10 @i1 ghase& Sanbor, THE BOSTON As(l) 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, en -. cheer. GOLD MEDAL, PARIS, 187%. a W. Baxer & Co.'s Breakfast =» (oc0a Is Absolutely Pure and itis Soluble. \ Unlike the | ja Dutch Process } No alkalies o [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. ¥. BAKER & CO., Dorchester, Mass. FOURTH NATIONAL BANK Grand Rapids, Mich. a —\ D. A. BLopeert, President. Gro. W. Gay, Vice-President. Wm. H. ANDERSON, Cashier, CAPITAL, - - - $300,000. Transacts a general banking business. Make a specialty of collections. Accounts It Pays Dealers to sell FOSFON because there are but two sizes, Five Ounces at 10 cents, Sixteen at 25 cents and it pleases better than Baking Powders. See Grocery Price Current. THe BREAD SUPPLANTS BAKING POWDER Fosfon Chemical Co.; Detroit, Michigan. SOLD BY ALL RELIABLE GROCERS. THE bd & B BRAND OYSTERS Will again this year, as in the past, be the very best procurable and packed daily from the sweetest and best stock. Regular season opens Sept. 15. Start in with us and do the Oyster business of your town. THE PUTNAM CANDY CO. See that this Label appears on every (package, as it is a guarantee of the genuine ar- ticle. MENTy, EEC Yu Me Le Rivetoat TiS or 0 MEN eet ly Ley VERDALE By es eS 0 FERMENTUM THE ONLY RELIABLE COMPRESSED YEAST Sold in this market for the past Fifteen Years, Far Superior to any other. Correspondence or Sample Order Solicited. Endorsed Wherever Used. JOHN SMYYH. Agent, Grand Rapids, Mich. Telephone 566. 106 Kent St. See that this Label appears on every package, as it is a guarantee of the genuine article. MENT, Fe ars yu a SE RIVERDALE IST wie 2. 0 MEN ee Rnesa TUM ey VERDALE eer S Tye FRR INS & HESS Hides, Furs, Wool & Tallow, NOS. 122 and 124 LOUIS STREET, GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN, of country merchants solicited. WE CARRY A STOCK OF CAKE TALLOW FOR MILL USE. 14 THH MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. A CHAPTER ON AXES. From Hardware. He picked up a bill that was lying on the desk near him, saying: ‘I always liked to sell axes. There isn’t so large a per cent. of profit in them as in a great many other items that do not require one-half the thought in buy- ing, or a fraction of the worry in selling, yet I’d rather sell a box of axes, and make a dollar, than sell those other goods and make twice as much.” He was a wholesale hardware dealer of more than twenty-five years’ experience in the business, and had been on the road, book-keeper, buyer and general manager. 1 was always glad tohave him grow re- miniscent and talk about the men con- nected with the trade whom he had met, and the changes in the goods he had handled. ‘Yes, I liked the axe makers; they were all pleasant men to do business with, and if one had his own label on his axes, as we always had, he grew to havea very warm feeling for the customers who stood by him season after season.”’ “‘Are there many changes in that trade?” I asked. ‘‘No, not in the goods; less than in al- most any other article in the stock. Back in 1866 we sold axes for $16.50 per dozen and had a profit of about $2.50, I think. The trade called then for much heavier axes than to-day. I think the popular assortment was 4 to 5ths, now in this same section it is 3 to 4ths. We bought our axes from William Mann, Jr., & Co., of Lewistown, Penn. The old ‘William Mann’ axe had an excellent rep- utation with woodchoppers; so had Lip- pincott’s and Hunt’s. We always carried a small stock of Mann’s own brand, but made our special push on our own label.” “Did they cost alike?”’ “Oh, yes; they were the same axe, but for thelabel. There were several Manns in the axe trade, and one of our competi- tors handled the axes of one of these other Manns. Another house handled Lippincott’s, and the fourth jobber sold a New York axe; Ten Eyck’s, I think.” ‘‘What was your own brand?”’ “The ‘Star’ axe. We pushed it be- cause there was always strong competi- tion in axes, and if you sold the same brand as others sold, the profits were cut down pretty fine. But when I went out on the road I carried samples of the two axes, and our price was always a dollar a dozen more for our ‘Star’ axe, than for Mann’s label. We made no claim that the ‘Star’ was a better axe, but as we asked more for it the average dealer took it for granted that it was a finer tool, and we sold ten dozen of the ‘Star’ to one dozen of Mann’s. Of course, the trade in axes in Ohio, Indiana, and Michigan, at that time was greater than it is to-day, We began soon after this to have strong competition from Cleveland, in the Pow- ell Tool Co.’saxes. They were always good goods and hard to displace, after they were once introduced. Then Lippincott created quite astirin the mar- ket by his patent axe, the Red Jacket. | haven’t seen any of these in eighteen years, and guess the younger generation knows nothing about them. The bit was perfectly round at both corners, quite well cut away; the poll was square, as I remember it, but not thick, as the ‘Dayton’ pattern is. Lippincott advertised it largely. One could hardly pick up the smallest village paper and not find the ‘Red Jacket’ axe advertised in it. The trade did not welcome it, the main reason for this being that every jobbing house was pushing its own brand of axe, and did not care to push a patented shape, as this was, and lose the work it had done on the old style axe. I had fre- quent calls for it, but my house would not handle it. This is a very short- sighted policy usually, this refusing to handle new goods that you fear may cut into the trade of goods you already handle. A wise merchant knows that you can damn a thing by faint praise, when you have it in stock, while your talk against it, when you have none for sale, is discounted by your hearer and taken for what itis worth. He may not get the goods from you, but he will get them somewhere. *‘Axes dropped in price to $10 a dozen in ’71 and ’72, and the best assortment to | sell was 314 to 41s th. About this time I made the acquaintance of Mr Blakewell, one of the most genial men in the trade. The patent axe, and other things, had been too much for the Lippincott concern, and it reorganized as Hubbard, Blakewell & Co. Mr. B. came around to see the trade. We were so wedded to Mann that I never bought axes of Mr. B. but we had some trade in other goods, and I was always glad to welcome him to that chair you are now sitting in. ‘“‘We now began to hear a good deal about inside and outside steel. Our men used to carry the piece of steel used in inlaid steel axes to show how much more steel went into the old-fashioned axe, but it was always rather hard sledding for us. The overlaid steel axe talked for itself, and kept on talking until all-steel axes made their way here. An axe maker came around about that time from Maine; a tall, lean, honest-looking man whose word you would take without hesi- tation--Mr. Hubbard,of Hubbard & Blake. You felt sure the moment you looked at him; that he wouldn’t make a poor article if he could. He talked axes and seythes, and for many years he made every scythe for us that we sold; they were good scythes too, and made us cus- tomers. “Along about °77 our old friend, Britain, from whom we had been buying locks and novelties for ten years, began to sing the praises of the Hunt axe, made by the Douglass Axe Co., of Boston. I always had the feeling that Britain would put me on the ground floor, and at his Suggestion 1 went down to Boston to see the manager, Dana. Poor Dana! He came to a bad end, from mining specula- tions, and ruined the concern, but he was aman of ability and fine address. Had his mining ventures turned out different- ly he would be petted by the men who have been so busy abusing him since he disappeared. I liked him so well that I bought his goods for several years. The concern kept us in hot water though in their delivery of goods. Those we ordered for August came in December, and no matter what we said we could not get things improved. Poor Britain and Bond conld only look sad and make promises for the future, as we hauled them over the coals and demanded an explanation and improvement. “In our territory a Mishawaka, Ind., axe gave us no end of trouble and worry. The axe showed a great deal more steel than did ordinary goods, was very plain- ly finished, and no label on it. It was common-looking, but when we sold our axe at $10 the Mishawaka axe sold at $14 to $16, and you could talk to a retailer until doomsday, but you could not con- vince him that any other would take its place. Axes keep dropping down in price until we bought them at $5.25, and these were made of all steel. ‘*T wo years ago consolidations were so popular that the various axe factories came under the spell. The American Axe & Tool Co. was formed and took in all the leading makers. They accom- plished one really good thing—the doing away with the warrant on axes. When I think of all the annoyance I have had over warranting axes in the past twenty- five years, 1 wonder that I am alive. There never was anything so outrageous- ly abused in our business. That the manufacturers should have permitted the fraud to continue so many years was evidence of their jealousy and fear of each other. One wondered that they never took the first step in educating the retail trade, so it might discriminate be- tween a break and a flaw, and one in solid steel; or to judge if the edge turned from being soft or from bad grinding. ‘I can remember, in my spring trips, how the chills ran down my back as the retailer remarked: ‘I’ve got some axes to return.” Then from out of the dirt under the counter, after long search, came from one to six rusty axes. If you looked at one with the least hesitancy the dealer began to prepare for battle. You found, if you did look, that five out of the six were ground too thin and had been bro- ken in solid steel, but everything was ex- changed that was brought back. Not only this but you were expected to credit these axes as so much cash on account, and if you insisted on the contrary you were liable to lose your customer, for other houses did what you were refusing to do. You were immediately twitted upon ‘going back on your warrant,’ as if nothing under heaven could be meaner than that, and you usually gave in, and then went and kicked yourself for doing it. Some of the small factories, built since the old concerns consolidated, are starting out by warranting their goods, but the jobber or retailer who encourages areturn to that idiocy is not fit to do business. “To offset their wisdom regarding the warrant the old companies made the mistake of booming up prices. Axes are now back to $5.50 again, but there are several concerns in the field who would not be there but for the high prices of 1890. Of these, the new axe made in Louisville has come to stay; it will grow with consumers and be an important fac- tor in the near future. Two factories are in the natural gas fields and making handsome goods. We met their axes al- together too frequently last season, and retailers spoke well of them. ‘‘But the axe trade is not of one-quarter the importance with us it was once. We used to sell 1,000 dozen a year, mostly of the ‘Western’ pattern, but also a good many heavy poll ‘Dayton’ pattern, and about 50 dozen double bitted. Now the trade calls almost altogether for 3 to 4th Michigan pattern, and foronly a very few double bitted axes. Prices in twenty- five years have dropped from $14 to $5.50 at the factory, and from $1.75 to 75 cents at retail. Wo. H. MAHER. WOOD WANTED! We will pay cash for dry Beech and Maple Wood, delivered on cars within 150 miles of Grand Rapids. Correspondence solicited. S. P. BENNETT FUEL & ICE CO., Grand Rapids. PROVISIONS. The Grand Rapids Packing and Provision Co, quotes as follows: PORK IN BARRELS, See eee 11 50 Pree 14 25 Bextra clear pig, short cut................... a5 50 econ See a eee 15 00 poe cher Sn eEt 15 00 rn mee 15 CO Standard clear, short cut, best............ 15 50 SAUSAGE—Fresh and Smoked. ee ee. 7% oe 9 ROMERO UMMENNB. 9 rere T™% eee a 5 ne eee 5 Bologna, thick.......... eee 5 eee ee 5 ARD. Kettle Com- Rendered. Granger. Family. pound, IOTOes ....... 8% 6% 6 50 lb. Tins. ..834 34 6% 6% 20 1b. Pails.. 9 8% 6% 65¢ a Cs 83% cs 6% > * .* 3% 7% 7 cam 8s Dg 9 74 7% BEEF IN BARRELS. Extra Mess, warranted 200 Ibs............... 6 50 Extra Mess, Chicago packing................ 6 50 pomcios, re eee 9 00 SMOKED MEATS—Canvassed or Plain, Hams, average 20 lbs................... a ' - See Eeots % “ 11% _ wee. 8% rr lu contin aa EE 8 Breakfast Bacon, boneless.................... 10 rte beet, ham prices............... a © es, age ae Bees, eee na ee CANDIES, FRUITS and NUTS, The Putnam Candy Co. quotes as follows: STICK CANDY. Cases Bbls. Pails. Standard, per ib......... 6% 7% - me... i. 6% 7% ei Twist .. 6% 7% Boston Cream ... -- oe oe nee. a 8% cous 8. e.... —. oe MIXED CANDY. Bbls. Pails. cura be 6 7 — eee ieee eeeekeeeencces 14) 6 2 ee. 6% 7% cae fe 7 8 ee oo z 8 Coeerves 8. 2.5... 7 8 tdi.) baskets 8 Peanut Squares............ eo 9 arene 10 Valley Crea... 13 Midget, 30 Ib. beskets...............2.0.0.000. 8 ee ee 8 Prancy—In bulk Pails, Poe ree. 10 - — MOP bee eae dete ily i OCCA Ts 10 2aae Chocolate Monumentals....................- 13 ee 5% rice, ce i i 8 ee 8% ee Me «eee 10 FaNcYy—In 5 lb. boxes. Per Box Pemon Prem 55 55 Popeeruss DOG 60 COC 65 oe Coes Ded 90 ee 40@50 rr ee 1 00 i 80 COCO We 60 a. ee 65 nnn, tense Sn 60 sonia: eC aL ei 70 oe oe 55 Ores OM on meee Cream. ...................,.. 85@95 Ce ee 80@90 Decorated Creams. ---.5 oo re 65 Peete 1 00 wreeeenreen Berrigg. 60 CARAMELS. mo. 1, Wrapped, 3H. baxes......).......... 34 mo. t, ie 3 Dee eaeecyscces. 51 No. 2, " 2 CE 28 No. 3 _ 3 ee 42 Stand mo. Soke. 90 BANANAS. ee ee co tetelaaathtt a 1 50@1 75 elt 2 GO@2 25 ORANGES. Comrormiee Bi, @ . — seis ” ng et EG Messinas, choice 200.............. ae @ en ee LEMONS, Momina, choice, 36....... @6 50 . aor oe @7 00 o cnasce ae. @7 00 ' fancy 300 Maioris............ 8 60 OTHER FOREIGN FRUITS. Figs, fancy layers, 6............ . @i7z " _ ae @18 " =a “* eS. @ “ee “ “e 20m an @ Dates, Fard, 10-lb. box... o @ &% “ oe @ 6% “ Peoria, 0015. box... @ 4% NUTS. Almonds, Tarragona.......... @19 "3 an, Te @l7 e visatguataatarie Oe Ee a 218% ee eee @ 9% siartetnsaeg CE SG ee @11% Melons, Gremenie, oo @i5 Hig oy ae Te @ ig eae @10 were ete ee @13 - eee @124 Pecans, Texas, H. P., 124%@14 Cocoanuts, full sadke............. ..._. @4 2 F H, ?..8 se ancy, H. P.,8uns......... @ 5% se “oe “ Roasted @ ™% Fancy, H. P., Flags......... @ 5% . "| Some... @™% Choice, H. P., Extras......... @ 4% a ° | mensted........ ae @ 6% Caltormia Walnnia 12% Crockery & Glassware FRUIT JARS. ree ee ee ac $6 75 ——e ee . mar Gelens. 9 00 ee ee 2% EE ) LAMP BUENERS. ott niga 45 coat EE eee aol cas Uae RI 50 Ee i a lemma G ee ES nents 75 LAMP CHIMNEYS.—Per box, 6 doz. in box. moO. 0608... 1 %5 —s 1 88 og ES cas ee a a 2 70 First quality, No. 0 Sun, crimp top.............. 2 25 No. 1 ay oe o 2 40 No. 3 oe oe “cc s 40 XXX Flint, BOO am ORD GOB 2 60 no.) “ " ee ee ee 2 80 No.2 * ai Fees 3 86 Pearl top. No. 1 Sun, wrapped oe Meee 3 70 = . ee : _ ee 470 o. mae, * . Ce 4 La Bastie. ” No. 1 Sun, plain bulb, per doz. .............. 123 Ro.2 * e ' . ee. GO. 2 OEE, DEE GOR 1 3% mos * Ey Sai) 1 60 LAMP WICKS. eG, DOr BOOM 23 No. 1, ae 28 No. 2, ee. 38 No. 3, ee Th MeMOCR, er Maa vis) STONEWARE—AKRON, Butter Crocks, 1 and 6 ae 06% Jugs, ee OOM % a: ee 90 ‘ * De eee eee ees 1 80 Miik Pans, % gal.,per doz......... .....27! 85 a i ye " glazed ...... —_ -— . - ee ee 78 . ' . ¢ _ earee. 90 < THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. 15 THE LONDON MONEY MARKET. The money lenders of Lombard street, who have been suffering from dull times ever since the Baring collapse, nearly two years ago, seem at present to be in a worse plight than ever. The Bank of England rate of discount remains nomin- ally at 2 per cent. per annum, but in the open market good short bills are taken at 1 per cent. and a trifle less, while loans on call can be had at so small a fraction of 1 per cent. that the interest over night on £10,000, or $50,000, amounts to only about 60 cents. For permanent invest- ment the borrowing demand is also light. Lenders are glad to get 3 per cent. per annum on good security, and are buying consols, first-class railroad debentures, and municipal loans at prices which yield a shade under that rate. OOur sympathy with this distress of British capitalists is, of course, very much mitigated by the consideration that it happens opportunely to counter- act some of the evil results of our own hazardous financial policy. The bad harvests in Europe last year helped us out amazingly in meeting the demands of our foreign creditors. This year, when we have no such intervention of Providence in our behalf, we, with equal good fortune, have not the same need of it. In spite of the desire of European financial institutions to strengthen their gold reserves, and of the special effort making by Austria-Hungary to acquire the means of resuming specie payments on a gold basis, the shipments of the metal from this country have ceased for the present, not to be resumed, probably, for some months to come. This is part- ly owing to the check given to importa- tions by the quarantine precautions against the cholera, but more to the diffi- culty of employing money abroad profita- bly, indicated by the low rates of inter- est there. The shrinkage in the volume of trade in Great Britain, which began with the Argentine collapse, has been assisted by the financial troubles of Brazil, following closely upon those of Argentien, by the bad harvests of last year, and, finally, though not to the extent often asserted, by the operation of the McKinley tariff. The bankruptcy of the large area of South America covered by Argentine anh Bra- zil has naturally diminished the ability of a numerous population to buy and pay for British goods. The partial failure of the crops at home has had the same ef- fect upon home consumption. In special branches of manufacture, such as tin plate and other articles of metal, the ex- ports of Great Britain to this country were for atime unfavorably affected by our new tariff, though they are now re- suming their former proportions. The general result of all these causes has been to reduce the total amount of British exports of home manufactures, during the first eight months of this year, to about £150,000,000, against £165,000,000 during the corresponding period of 1891. On the other hand, the British imports of food for these last eight months have been £7,000,000 greater than they were for the first eight months of 1891, and those of cotton and other raw materials about £4,000,000 less, showing a net in- crease in imports of £3,000,000 and more. Accompanying this shrinkage in the im- ports of raw materials and the exports of manufactured goods an unwillingness has been shown to embark in new enter- prises, which has reduced the amount of fresh capital invested in them since Jan. 1, 1891, to £170,000,000, against £330,- 000,000 for the two years previous to that date. On the London Stock Ex- change the dullness of speculation has resulted in a reduction of bank clearings on stock pay days from an average of £60,000,000 in 1890 to one of about £40,- 000,000 since Jan. 1, last. The depression in the British ship- building industry also reflects in a marked manner the depression in the general trade of the country. The year 1891 was one of great activity in the ship- yards of the United Kingdom, the total new production having been 1,273,784 tons against 1,271,110 tons in 1890, and 1,500,933 tons in 1889, and the amount under construction at the close of the year having been 793,913 tons against 734,010 tons at the close of 1890. This continued large addition of new shipping in the face of adecreasing demand for it did not fail to attract, at the time, the attention of thoughtful observers and to lead them to predict just what has hap- pened. At the annual meeting of the Associated British Chambers of Com- merce, its President declared that ‘‘ship- building was little more than a remem- brance.’”’ The effect in preventing its re- vival which the cholera panic is likely to have, I need not point out. What makes this decline in the foreign demand for its manufactures and of em- ployment for its shipping the more seri- ous to Great Britain, is its dependence upon the profits of the manufactures and of its carrying trade for the means of feeding its people. Its net imports of articles of food and drink in 1891 came to over £150,000,000, and for the first eight months of this year their value has been nearly £100,000,000. Notwith- standing a high cultivation, which makes the average yield of wheat twenty-seven bushels to the acre, whereas, on our new and fertile land, the average is but about eleven bushels, the total harvest of wheat in Great Britain and Ireland for the present comparatively favorable year is estimated at only 62,154,000 bushels, while the requirements for seed and for consumption as food are put at 250,052, 000 bushels, leaving a deficiency of 187,- 898,000 bushels to be supplied by im- portation. In addition, the country con- sumes annually, beyond its own pro- duction, about 40,000,000 bushels of bar- ley, 45,000,000 bushels of oats, and 8,- 000,000 bushels of beans. It also im- ports some 60,000,000 bushels of our Indian corn, which takes the place of other breadstuffs, and an immense quan- tity of beef, pork and other animal food, the value of which, with that of butter, cheese, eggs and similar articles, is near- ly £60,000,000 annually. Nearly a cen- tury ago the famous Thomas Malthus, in his essay on the rate of increase of popu- lation, predicted this deficiency in the British food supply, and was violently denounced for doing it. The fulfillment of his prediction has indeed been aided by causes of which he took no account, yet his principle has proved to be sound. I would not be understood as asserting that the people of Great Britain have no other means of paying for the food and drink they import than their manufac- tures and their shipping. On the con- trary, they have an enormous income, derived from their investments all over the world, and especially in this country. That many hundreds of millions of dol- lars’ worth of our railroad securities be- MIGHIGAN CENTRAL “* The Niagara Falls Route.” DEPART. ARRIVE ON ooo es ecicccec scenes 7:00am 10:00pm ici eseesccee 7:05am 4:30 pm ee 1:20pm 10:00am *Atlantic & Pacific uaprees.......... 1:00pm 6:00am ee 5:40pm 10:45pm *Daily. All other daily except Sunday. Sleeping cars run on Atlantic and Pacific Express trains to and from Detroit. Elegant parlor cars leave Grand Rapids on Detroit Express at 7 a. m., returning leave Detroit 4:45 p. m. arrive in Grand Rapids 10 p. m. FRED M. Brie@s, Gen’! Agent, 85 Monroe St. A. ALMQuIsT, Ticket Agent, Union Depot. Gro. W. moony oe Ticket Office, 67 Monroe St. O. W.Rueets G. P. & T. Agent., Chicag oO. TIME TABLE NOW IN EFFECT. DETROIT SA Aa Miuwaukee eZ EASTWARD. ewe 14/tNo. 16/tNo. 18)*No. 82 | | Ly. Chicago.... ; 7 30pm| seecee[ereeceee[- cs Ly. Milwaukee.| 8 30pm] .... .. G’d Rapids, Ly} 6 50am 10 Séam| 3 25pm| Trains Leave 12 05am Grand Rapids & Indiana. Schedule in effect September 25, 1892. TRAINS GOING NORTH. Arrive from Leave coe South. th. 6:15am For Cadillac and Saginaw...... : 20 am For Traverse City & Mackinaw 9:00am 1:10 pm For Cadillac and Saginaw...... 1:40 pm 4:15pm For Petoskey & Mackinaw..... 8:10 p m 10:10 pm From Chicago and Kalamazoo. 8:35 p m Train arriving from south at 6:15am and 9:00am daily. Others trains daily except Sunday. TRAINS GOING SOUTH. Arrive from Leave going North. South. Wer Cinetumats.................. 6:30 am 7:00 am For Kalamazoo and Chicago... 10:05 am For Fort Wayne and the Kast.. 11:50am 2:00 pm woe Coictguatl.................. 6:15 p m 6:00 pm For Kalamazoo & Chicago..... 11.00 pm 11:20 pm Cablem'a chia, icanaf eA 11:50 a : ee 11.00 p Train leaving south at 11:20 p. all other trains daily except Sunday. m. vane daily; SLEEPING & PARLOR CAR SERVICE. NORTH 1:10 m train has parlor car Grand Rapids to Petoskey and Mackinaw. 10:10 p m train.—Sleeping car Grand Rapids to Petoskey and Mackinaw. SOUTH--7:00 am train.—Parlor chair car Grand Rapids to Cincinnati. 10:05 am train.—Wagner Parlor Car — Rapids to Chicago. 6:0 train.— Wagner Sleeping Car g00) Rapids to Cincinnati. 11;20 p m train.—Wagner Sleeping Car Grand Rapids t toc Chie me. Chicago via G. R. & 1. R. R. Lv Grand Rapids 10:05 a m 2:00 pm 11:20 p m Arr Chicago 3:35 pm 9:00 p m 6:50 am 10:05 a m train through Wagner Paice Car. 11:20 p m train daily, through Wagner Sleeping Car. Lv Chicago 7:05 am 3:10 pm 10:10pm Arr Grand Rapids 1:50 pm 8:35 p m 6:50 am 3:10 m through Wagner Parlor Car. 10:10p m train daily, through Wagner Sleeping Car. oe... Ar| 7 45am ee 25am| 4 27pm! 1 1sam St. Johns ...Ar| 8 30am}|12 17pm) 5 20pm) 2 14am Owoss)..... Ar| 905am 120pm| 6 G5pin| 3 05am E. Saginaw..Ar/10 45am] 3 45pm! 8.0pm| 6 4/am Bay City .....Arj11 30am] 4 35pm) 8 45pm} 7 15ain Pum Ar/|10 05am} 3 45pm) 7 ¢5pm!| 5 40am Pt. Huron...Ar/1205pmj| 6 00pm| 8 50pm! 7 30am Pontiac ......Ar}10 58am] 3 05pm) — 4 57am Detroit,...... Ar {il 50am| 4.05pm) 9 25pm] 6 00am WESTWARD. Trains Leave |*No. 81 |tNo. 11|tNo. _ 15 Lv. Detroit. .... 10 45pm| 6 50am|10 Soam| 4 05pm G’d Rapids, Lv} 7 05am) 1 v0pm} 5 10pm)1 ) 20pm Gad Haven, Ar/ 8 35am Milw’kee Str “ Citeana Sa. “| ....... *Daily. tDaily except Sunday. Trains arive from the east, 6:40 a. m., 12:50 a. m., 5:00 p. m. and 10:00 p. m. Trains arrive from the west, 6:45 a m, 10:10 a. m., 3:15 p.m. and 11:55 p. m Eastward—No. 14 has W agner Parlcr Buffet car. No. 18 Chair Car. No. 82 Wagner Sleeper. Westward— No. 81 Wagner Sleeper. No. 11 Chair Car. No. 15 Wagner Parlor Buffetcar. Joun W. Loup, Traffic Manager. BEN FLETCHER, Trav. Pass. Agent. Jas. CAMPBELL, City Ticket Agent. 23 Monroe Street. 2 10pm 6 15pm) 11 20pm 6 ao 6 30am i Gere)... . WIRTH, KRAUSE & CO, JOBBERS OF CHILDREN’S SHOES Leather and Shoe Store Supplies. 12-14 LYON ST. Geo. H. Reeder & Co., JOBBERS OF BOOTS & SHOES Felt Boots and Alaska Socks. State_Agents for GRAND RAPIDS 158 £09160 FountainoSt.