HORN LL BE SS MER RADESMAN COMPANY, PUBLISH $5 OR ASS RO ORS Pri NAS LE Lt net ; VERAVVW YZ Zp ig! NSA ER YEAR => ASR S GRAND RAPIDS, SEPTEMBER 13, 1893. Shake off the Dragging Chains * By discarding the pass book and other antiquated charging systems and adopting the cash and coupon book system, which has stood the test of a dozen years and is now in successful operation by thousands of progressive dealers in all parts of the country. We are the originators and sole manufacturers of three kinds of coupon books, samples of which will be cheerfully sent to any dealer on ayplication. TRADESMAN COMPANY, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Is what we're all looking A GOOD most of us “tie to it” From 1. tr I NG an epicure’s standpoint A B. OYSTERS Are one of the good things to be obtained from Sept. 1 to the following April. They are put up from selected stock which is received fresh every day A reasonable profit is realized by the dealer, and the consumer feels that he has received value for his money. Order them through any Grand Restle Ey yeNT AM teed CAMIDY CO. PEHEREINS & HESS DEALERS IN Hides, Furs, Wool & Tallow, NOS, 122 and 124 LOUIS STREET, GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN WE CARRY 3 STOCK OF CAKE TALLOW FER MILL TSK for, and when we find it the ss TELFER SPICE COMPANY, MANUFACTURERS OF Spices and Baking Powder, and Jobbers of Teas, Coffees and Grocers’ Sundries. J and 3 Pearl Street, GRAND RAPIDS We make él, You uy en, Your trade like ‘en. ALL GENUINE HARD PAN SHOES HAVE OUR NAME ON SOLE AND LINING. indge, Kalmbach & Go. Agents for THE BOSTON RUBBER SHOE COMPANY, Fall Line of Fall Caps, PLUSH AND KNIT. _———— THE INSPECTION OF THE TRADE IS SOLICITED, P. Steketee & Sons, WHOLESALE fe YF (OOS NOTIONS PPEACHES. l€ you are in the market for PEACHES, PLUMS, PEARS, GRAPES, Ete., correspond with us. Piices quoted by letter or wire daily. WRITE US. ALFRED J. BROWN CoO., Seedsmen and Fruit Commission Merchants, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. OYSTERS. ANCHOR BRAND Are the best. F. J. DETTENTHALER. STANDARD OIL CO. GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN. DEALERS IN Illuminating and Lubricating NAPTHA AND GASOLINES. Office, Hawkins Block. Works, Butterworth Ave | BULK WORKS AT SRAND RAPIDS, BIG RAPIDS, ALLEGAN, MUSKEGON, GRAND HAVEN, HOWARD CITY, MANISTEE, CADILLAC, LUDINGTON. PETOSKEY, HIGHEST PRIOE PAID FOR KMPYY GARBON & GASOLIN’ BARRELS LEMON & WHBELER COMPANY. IMPORTERS AND Wholesale Grocers Grand Rapids. SEEDS! Everything in Seeds is kept by us—Clover, Timothy, Hungarian, Top, Blue Grass, Seed Corn, Rye, Barley, Peas, Beans, Etc. If you have Beans to sell, send us samples, stating quantity, and we will try to trade with you. We will sell Egg Cases and Egg Case Fillers. No. 1 Egg Case, complete(in lots of 10), 35c each. No. t Fillers, 10 sets in a No. 1 Case, $1.25. No. 2 Fillers, 15 sets in a No 1 Case, $1.50. Millet, Red All orders will receive prompt attention at lowest market price. W. T, LAMOREAUX CO., 128, 130 and 132 W. 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SPECIALLY FINE LINE FOR RESORT TRADE. SOUTECIUUTICITITICITT Somme TICTTOOTTT TOTTI =a HOCOLATES. Orders given us for Oranges, lemons and Bananas will receive careful attention. A. E, BROOKS & co., 46 O.tawa St., Grand Rapids, "Mich. a» we ssi mance A na toni aoeagioetti ecacibenteansnaes X CORES Se SSS * r ‘ . 7 a 30 NISL) » GIFT ah ADESMAN GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1893. 2 1327 a > LG ¢ NO. 52 Ad, SHELAAK SclnicOpicin, 6 gone S. Soo wey TS, =~ ad Eyes tested for spectacles free of cost wiht latestimproved methods. Glasses in every style at moderate prices. Artificial human eyes of every color. Sign of big spectacles. VUVTV VV We are Fishing FOR YOUR TRADE. BLANK BOOKS Made to Order AND KEPT IM STOCK. Send for Samples oi | our new Manifold City Receipts, Telegrams and Tracers. ® BARLOW BROTHERS ¢ P HAVE MOVEE @ To band 7 Pearl 8t,, Near the Bridge. of ESTABLISHED 1841. RE RAMI ORI ROE THE MERCANTILE AGENCY R.G. Dun & Co. Kieference Books issued quarterly. Collections attended to throughout United States and Canada The Bradstreet Mercantile Agency. The Bradstreet Company, Props. Exeeative Offices, 279, 281, 283 Broadway, N.Y CHARLES F,. CLARK, Pres, Offices in the principal cities of the United States, Canada, the European continent, Australia, and in London, England. Grand Rapids Office, Room 4, Widdieomb Bldg, HENRY ROYCE, Supt. THE FIRE ¥ INS. co. PROMPT, CONSERVATIVE, SAFE. T..STEWART WHITE, Pres’t. W. Frep McBam, Sec’y. ,BARLOW BRO'S2"»BLANK BOOKS Ania THe PHILA.PAT.FLAT OPENING BACK a meek L571. Mi? ad SR dia A ea ; ; — ROOD & RYAN, ATTORNEYS aT Law. GRAND Rapips, Micu. WIDDICOMB BUILDING. Attorneys for R. G. DUN & CO. References—Foster, Stevens & Co., Ball-Barn- hart-Putman Co., Rindge, Kalmbach & Co., H. Leonard & Sons, Voigt, Herpolsheimer & Co., Peck Bros., National City Bank, Olney & Judson Grocer Co., R.G. Dun & Co, Hazeltine & Per- kins Drug Co., State Bank of Michigan, Trades- man Company. COMMERCIAL CREDIT CO. Successor to Cooper Commercial Agency and Union Credit Co. Commercial reports and current collections receive prompt and careful attention. Your patronage respectfully solicited. Office, 65 Monroe St. Telephones 166 and 1030. L J STEVENSON, Cc. A. CUMINGS, Cc. E. BLOCK. CRISIS ON COW ISLAND. Terrible Times When Old Man Hutchins Suspended Payment. There is a man on Cow Island who takes a newspaper. He did not sub- scribe for itin arash, unthinking man- ner, but calmly, and because he felt the heed of it. This was im 1867. He chose the Boston Telegraph because it was a steady-going, conservative paper, and he has stuck toit. He does not get the daily, of course, but the weekly edi- tion, which costs $1 a year. The Telegraph continued to be steady going and conservative until 1887, when it got into financial difficulties, and the management changed. A lawyer named Ananias W. Shyster—or if thatisn’t his name it fits him like a hemp collar—ob- tained control, temporarily, and he got out such a paper as I+would have said nobody but himself was bad enough to read. But the subscriber of Cow Island did not notice the difference. Again the management changed and a cultured gentleman took charge. He made the paper so ‘literary’? that even in Boston it was but dimly understood. Yet Lem Hutchins, of Cow Island, read it without a dictionary. The literary epoch was succeeded by wild sensation- alism. ‘‘Get a murder to lead the paper if you have to kill a subscriber,” said the new chief to the managing editor, and it was done. But Uncle Lem Hutchins thought it was the same old Telegraph. The world had grown wicked, that was all; and he had always said it would. In the early part of this month the managing editor of the Telegraph ordered an article on the financial situation. ‘‘And make it red hot,” he added. The young man who prepared the article was working for $12 per week, and was thus naturally disposed to take a somber and hopeless view of all monetary questions. He wrote from the heart; and it was al- most no trouble for him to cipher out a general bankruptcy. The article went into the weekly and eventually reached the subscriber of Cow Island. Old man Hutchins never doubted any- thing that he saw in the Telegraph. He was doubly bound to credit this particu- lar article because it boded disaster. Cow Island is off the main coast, and things have gone wrong for so long down there that the people believe calamity to be the general rule of nature. ‘*B’jinks, mother,” said he to his wife, after perusing the scare story in the Telegraph, ‘‘money seems to be mighty skerse, jes’ now. They ain’t got none, even up in Boston.”’ ‘‘What seems to be the trouble, Lem- uel?” enquired the old lady. ‘‘Waal, as near as I can find out, the folks that have money are hangin’ onto 16.7” ‘You can’t blame ’em for that I’m sure,’’ rejoined the prudent housewife. “It’s what I’ve allers tried to beat into you. How much did ye get to-day for your fish over to Swan’s Island?” ‘Seven dollars an’ fifty-two cents.’’ ‘*What ye guin’ to do with it?” ‘*Waal, [ was thinkin’ some of payin’ what we owe down to the store.”’ ‘*How much is it?’’ Old man Hutchins got out a diary, the covers of which had been bought during the war. The interiors of such diaries can be obtained separately, thus saving half the cost of anew book. Some thoughtful Yankee devised this scheme a long time ago, and doubtless got rich onit. Mrs. Hutchins always gave her husband the ‘‘fillin’’’ for his diary as a Christmas present. “It’s $3.08,” he replied to his wife’s question. He shut the book with an air of deep consideration. ‘An’ I guess Ill hang onto it,” he added, ‘‘till we get next week’s paper, anyhow. Then we can see how things is goin’. Money’s skerse enough here, that I’ll swear to. I'll bet there ain’t $15 o’ ready cash on Cow Island.” Hutchins went down to the store on the following morning to get some over- ripe clams for trolling bait. ‘““Chalk ’em up,”’ said he. John Collins, the storekeeper, took a little canvas bag out of his pocket and emptied it on the counter. He then counted the coins which it had contained in a pleading and pathetic manner. The total was $1.92. Old man Hutchins was unmoved by this mute appeal. ‘‘T was sort o’ hopin’, Uncle Lem,” said Collins, in an apologetic tone, ‘‘that ye might gi’ me somethin’ to-day.’’ *“Can’t do it, John,” replied the capi- talist of Cow Island. ‘‘Money’s tight— tighter’n it’s ever been afore. I was readin’ about it in the paper last night. Banks breakin’ all over. the country and folks sendin’ gold to Europe to keep it out o’ reach o’ their creditors.” ‘‘Sufferin’ mack’rell,’’ said Collins. **Ye don’t say!’’ “They be; an’ we ain’t seen the worst of it yet, in my opinion. An’ that re- minds me that George Blake owes me three dollars and some odd cents for hay. Let them clams stand there, John, an’ I’1l go over to his place an’ give him a chance to settle up.” While Uncle Lem was gone two women came into the store with blueberries to sell. ‘‘How-de-do, John,’’ they said in chorus. ‘‘Want some nice blueberries?”’ ‘*‘Waal, I wouldn’t mind takin’ a few,” said Collins. ‘‘What do ye want for ’em?” **Five cents a quart.’’ “Take it out in trade?’’ “Not to-day, John. Ye see we’re goin’ over to Swan’s Island, an’ want a little money to buy a few things with—’”’ ‘“‘Can’t spare it,” said Collins. ‘‘I tell ye, Maria, money is skerse. Uncle Lem Hutchins was in here jes’ now, an’ he says that he sees by the paper that there ain’t no money to be had anywheres.’’ Then ensued some desperate down East haggling, but Collins was firm. He wasn’t in the market for blueberries, ex- cept on a basis of ‘“‘store pay.” The women lost their tempers presently, and left the store, after which Collins bit off a large piece of tobacco, and sat down to ruminate on the financial situation. By and by Mrs. Hutchins came in with four dozen eggs, but she wouldn’t trade for anything but blueberries, and Collins wouldn’t pay cash. He suggested credit- ing the eggs to Mr. Hutchins’ account, but the lady said that her account and her husband’s were two separate affairs, and‘she took her eggs home again. When she had gone two young men who were evidently not of those parts came in and said that they proposed to camp on the shore of theisland. They inquired where was the best place to buy milk. Collins referred them to Uncle Lem. Then the young men negotiated for large quantities of -crackers and cheese. They tendered a five dollar bill in payment. Collins couldn’t change it. The young men had nothing smaller. Collins said that he didn’t believe that there was that much change on the island. The young men said they’d be hanged if they’d camp in sucha poverty-stricken place; they’d go to Isle au Haute. Col- lins reflected with grief and pain that if Uncle Lem had paid his bills there’d have been plenty of change in the canvas bag, and a good stroke of business have been done in crackers and cheese. His only consolation was in the thought that Uncle Lem had lost the chance to sella gallon or two of milk. Uncle Lem came back about this time, and he said that he didn’t think that Blake was treating him right. ‘*He wouldn’t pay ye, eh?” said Collins. “Said he would when Ruf. Webb paid him,” replied Uncle Lem. darned good mind to sue for it.” “lve & “Ruf. Webb,’’ repeated Collins, and he pulled his chin whiskers thoughtfully. Unele Lem took up his clams and de- parted, breathing vengeance on Blake. By and by Webb dropped in. ‘“‘’’m sorry to bother ye. John,” said he, ‘but George Blake has been dunnin’ me for $3 an’ odd that you owe me——’”’ ‘“Couldn’t to save me,’’ protested Col- lins. ‘‘There ain’t that much in the bag.’’ And he beat a mournful tune on the counter with the little canvas pouch. O ‘J dunno know what I’m goin’ to do, John,’”? said Webb. ‘‘If he sues me, why i" ‘*You’ll sue aman by the name o’ Col- lins. That’s natural, Ruf., bat it ain’t what 1 eall kind.”’ ‘TJ can’t help it, John, money’s mighty skerse. The paper says so, an’ every man ought to have his own.’’ *‘But how’s he going to get it? There’s people around here that owes me money. Vill bet there’s more’n $12 owin’ me this minute. If there’s any goin’ to law, why I'll take a little shy at it myself.”’ There was a good deal of talk about lawsuits on Cow Island that day and the next. Trade came toa standstill. No- body would barter. Everybody wanted cash, and nobody would give it. Hutch- ins had more than half the money on the island, and apenny of it couldn’t have been drawn out of his pocket with for- ceps. Cow Island gossip, usually as mild as the disposition of the animal from which the place took its name, sud- denly becameacrimonious. A feeling of uneasiness pervaded the community. People raked up old debts and every man knocked off work to go and dun somebody. Finally Hutchins went over to Isle au Haute to see alawyer. He was so for- tunate as to select a day when the legal gentleman was intoxicated. The odds were about five to two on that anyway. There was acurious thing about Lawyer Hobbs; when he reached a certain stage of intoxication he became honest. Yea, more, he became liberal. In this re- markable condition of body and soul he not only advised old man Hutchins to keep clear of the law, but he also set out a demijohn of old Medford rum, which was sharp enough to shear sheep. The consequence was that Hutchins returned to Cow Island in a frame of mind which made him forget that money was tight; or, if he remembered it, he could not in that condition consistently complain of it. How he got back at all is a deep sea mystery, for as he satin the stern of his little sloop boat she seemed to him to carry more spars than a full-rigged ship. He rolled into Collins’ store about dusk. John,” he said, ‘‘money is easier. What’s your little bill?” “Three dollars and eight cents,’’ he said, and he got the money. ‘Sit right down here, Uncle Lem,’’ he continued, ‘‘while I run over to Ruf. Webb’s house.’’ Hutchins selected a chair from the row which he saw standing against the wall, and by good luck he got the one which had a real and valid existence. He was asleep when Collins returned; but presently he was awakened by the entrance of George Blake. ‘*Unele Lem here?’’ asked Blake. ‘‘Oh, there he is. Iran over to settle for that hay, Ruf. Webb just forked over to me, and here’s what | owe you.’’ He put the cash in Uncle Lem’s hands. “Money don’t seem to be so skerse as it was on the island,’’ Blake continued, turning to Collins. ‘I guess Uncle Lem must ’a’got some over to Swan’s Island.”’ That rumor was current next morning, and by noon everybody had plucked up the courage to pay his debts and had gone to work again. HowARD FIELDING, RETROSPECTIVE. Standing in the Light of Reflections of | the Past. All things have a beginning, a period | Between | the beginning and the ending of anything | of existence, and an ending. lies its reeord, whether it be judged by good or evil. A tree is the fruit it bears. gather figs from thorns or grapes from thistles?” When a new thing appears, we can only judge of its future by com- parison with similar things. A compari- son with dissimilar things will not fur- nish data sufficiently reliable upon which to form a judgment—such reasoning would be but wild conjecture. Itis only when a thing has had some existence or has commenced to fulfill its mission, that we are enabled to predict its future with any degree of certainty, and we do this by making ourselves acquainted with its past. Prospect is based on retrospect. We look for the sun to rise in the East to-morrow because we have seen it rise in the East every day inthe past. When I was in Eastern Washington, four years ago, a hot wind blew over the country and buraed up the crops. Such a disas- trous thing had never happened to the country before, yet the people became panic stricken. They were afraid it might oecur again and they all wanted to sell out and leave the country. Pros- pectors were afraid to buy for the same reason that made the settlers anxious to sell—a fear that what had happened once might happen again. Everything must be viewed .in the light reflected by its past, and according to this light will the prospect of its future be cast. Man is no exception to these conditions of oeing, but before making a general application of my subject to him, | wish to request my readers to join me in tendering hearty congratulations to THE MIcuHI- GAN TRADESMAN onits safe and prosper- ous arrival at the threshold of the eleventh year of its successful existence. Tue TRADESMAN has a history. It has been put on record. It has carved out a name which it must answer to in the years tocome. It has a past, and let us sincerely hope it may have a future still more prosperous than its past has been. To-day THE MICHIGAN TRADES- MAN stands before the business men of Michigan in the light reflected by its past ten years of existence. Reader, what think you of the retrospect? Does it look pleasing and bright when viewed in this light? If so, your best wishes are for its future prosperity. Has it been of any material benefit to you in the past? Then you will remain loyal to it in the future. Are you new in busi- ness and unacquainted withit? You have no excuse for a doubt, for your predecessors have established its repu- tation. THe TRADESMAN has stood the test of ten annual revolutions, and as it enters its second decade the undivided goodwill and support of the mercantile fraternity, wholesale and retail, go with it. While you are taking a retrospec- tive view of THe TRADESMAN, think what a wonderfully varied record of events is contained in its office file for the past ten years! Bound in volumes and filed away for future reference, what a story they contain! If the business men ever secure a judgment day of their own, these will constitute the books which will be opened on that day. What a record of successes and failures, of ups and downs and ins and outs; of unwise which reveals its nature, | “Do men | meee and lucky investments; of blasted i/hopes and cruel disappointments; of | short-sighted and ill-advised adventures; of disreputable practices and crooked methods; creditors; of assignments including a few ‘‘traps’”? in sight, but forgetting the ieash which was notin sight; of advice junheeded, and of valuable pointers |thrown aside and overlooked! There is not a retailer in Michigan who would al- low the subscription list of THz TRADEs- MAN for the first year of its second dec- ade to stand without his name inscribed thereon, if he would take a retrospective glance at that shown in any one past year’s bound record. May THe TRADEs- MAN attain the same ratio of increased prosperity for its owners and utility for its readers during its second ten years as it did during its first ten, and may every business man in Michigan read it and prosper in his business. We are all anxious to know what are our future prospects for success and everything is turned upside down—ex- cept the right thing—to find out. We overlook the fact, as before stated, that prospect is based on retrospect. We are told that life is too short, the exigencies of the present too urgent, and the future fraught with too great importance to mope over the dead past. This will ap- ply in youth when there is nothing to look atin the past, but itis a fatal mis- take on the part of a man of middle age to blot out the past from his book of re- membrance. Every man who has meas- swords with his fellows in the din of business battle has put his powers and capabilities to the test, a careful rec- ord of which has been indelibly written on the scroll of departed years. The years pass away, but those individual records remain as lamps to light our footsteps along the pathway of life, and the older we grow the more we need them. This is the light which enables others to judge our capabilities and pre- dict our future prospects, and why should it not illuminate our own minds as to our capabilities and future pros- pects? Have we failed so far in the con- flict to win suecess? Let us blunder on no longer. Life may be too short to ured as we have been doing. Let’ us consider the retrospect and thereby learn something of the prospect before us. Did we try the grocery business when we were young, careless and inex- perienced, and have age, wisdom and business experience failed to remove the desire to handle codfish, soap and crack- ers? Then grocery success may be among the possibilities; but, if we did our level best before, and have learned nothing since, it is safe to conclude that the smell of dried herrings and fragrant onions doesn’t agree with us. Did we leave the farm because we got too lazy to ‘‘watch gap?”’ If so there is no use in going back to the farm, for we would find that our old malady had become ten- fold more intensified. If we find that we have set sail two or three different times in as many different kinds of mer- eantile craft, each of which went to the bottom, leaving us afloat on the wreck- age before we were aware that anything was the matter, we may rest assured that, should we make another venture, our friends would not ship with us. They measure our future chances by our of chattel mortgages to skin mope very much over the past, but it is | certainly too short to blunder any longer | past successes, and it would be the part! Chocolate ieee [A CTURERS OF MANUFA KNOCK DOWN TABLES AND SHELVING, AND MANUFACTURERS AGENT FOR Koch Adjustable Brack- ets for Shelving. This combination renders the furniture of a store portable—not fixtures, to be retained by the landlord and utilized by the next tenant. This arrangement enables the merchant to move his store furniture more quickly and easily than he can move his stock, thus enabling him to resume business in a new loca- tion without loss of valuable time. Samples of each line on exhibition at office, 315 MICHIGAN TRUST CO. BUILDING. If you cannot visit office, send for eatalogue. PAIR COMPETITION BUILDS UP TRADE. It confines a seller to honest statement (FAIR COMPETITION) of the merits of his goods without untrue remarks and damaging concerning his competitors. It is a poor business man who attempts success by running down his neighbor’s goods. The public will not long be deceived. The merit will come to the front. A large and success- ful business usually indicates that good methods have been employed. The Gail Borden “RAGLE BRAND” ees SEES SR t ~ (Die Condensed Milk occupies an enviable posi- tion. Why? Because it has gained it strict- ly upon its merits as pure wholesome, un- y up ’ by Rated We thai Peree OS 4 teense i the si . . Orig 4a B —— 7g CO Ce Se equaled and, therefore reliable. Your customers call for it. 1 of wisdom on our part to do likewise. Two or three attempts to run a retail store in as many different branches of business, followed by as many unac- countable and unexplainable failures, would indicate that the Almighty had made us too loose jointed and sloppy to take care of the ‘‘wees’’? that make the ‘“‘muckle”’ in a retail business. This is no reflection on our creation. It only shows that we are intended for another ealling in life, and that we sin against the light reflected by the past when we undertake to keep a retail store. It may be that our lives have been one series of mistakes and blunders, and that we have made a miserable failure of everything we have undertaken. If such be the case, let us examine each case carefully. Where we find inability the cause, lay it to a foolish piece of blundering and avoid a repetition of it; but where negli- gence or carelessness resulting from loose habits appear to be the cause, one thing is certain—cure the habits, or future prospects can promise nothing. If bad habits knock a man out in one undertaking, they will do so in an- other. We might as well go down with the burning deck upon which we stand as to fly to another with a burning brand in our hand. If we find that every at- tempt has met with failure which ap- pears to have been entirely unavoidable on our part, let us not be discouraged. It is cowardly to whine. Never give up while life lasts. The most bitter pang of hunger is that which immediately precedes relief. God helps those who help themselves. To lose heart is to lose the battle before itis fought out. To claim that the fates are against us is to set ourselves up as ‘‘hoo-doos’’ and court the everlasting contempt of all practical business men. A closely ana- lyzed retrospect will show that a series of such unavoidable failures is caused by incapacity, incompetency or uncon- geniality, and that an untried field of usefulness is waiting somewhere for the wanderer, where his efforts will be crowned with success, if he does not faint by the wayside. Some men are so constituted that sometimes it is late in life before they succeed in finding their own true love; and, sometimes, owing to their faint-heartedness, they never find it. The man who never indulges in retro- spection never knows ‘‘where he is at.’ The man who never looks back after put- ting his hand to the plow may maintain a bold front, but how is he to know what kind of a furrow he is striking? If deep, regular and straight, well and good; butif shallow, uneven and crooked, others know it, while he, poor fellow, remains in blissful ignorance—he never looks back. If the field belong to him- self, he may root it up to his own sweet satisfaction, but, if it belong to another, he wonders why he loses his job so often, having heard no complaint or received no instructions. If he would only stop and luok back, he would see what the matter was. If we could only see our- selves as others see us, what a different opinion some of us would have of our- selves. Olid Father Time is dogging our foot- steps continually with his great ‘‘ko- dak,” taking ‘‘snap’’ pictures of us every moment of our lives, which are photographed and hung up on the walls of his silent corridors for present and future inspection. These corridors are lighted with a pale, ghastly, yet distinct, THE MICHIGAN light. Like that reflected by the moon, it is borrowed. It is the light of de- parted years which have disappeared forever below the horizon, reflected on the stony face of the Silent Past. Let us take a walk through these corridors; it will do us good. Do you shudder at the thought of calling up the past; or is it the great distance through the corri- dors that discourages you? Come, we are only in middle life and will have but half the distance to travel. There they are, arranged in countless numbers of rows, and the rows of varying lengths. Ah, here is our row. Out with notebook and pencil, for this is retrospect, and from the data gathered here we are to figure out prospect. Look down the line! What are those frisky scenes in flashy colors away down there at the end of the row? Ah! They are the scenes of early manhood, when the animal spirits conspired with all the other spirits to down reason and strangle common sense. Egotism, self-conceit and self-indulgence are the predominating features; but early manhood is not supposed to be ca- pable of any good thing, and we pass on. Now we come to where we. sup- posed the real earnest work of life had commenced. How startled we are at the awful significance of what we considered mere trifles at the time of their occur- rence. How eager we are to blot them out, but they belong to the past and can never be erased. Mere trifles that are reeled off unnoticed and unheeded with the passing moments, how they stare at us and chide us now that we cannot re- callthem! But we must return to the present, and, by improving it, pave the way fora future brighter than the past has been. This is a time for taking soundings and locating bearings. The nation’s liver is out of order. The national cir- culation is clogged and the great pulse of the nation is at avery low ebb. Some- thing is the matter, and, while the doc- tors are diagnosing the case at Washing- ton, everybody is trying to find out ‘twhere we are at.’’ Now is the time to run back over the ledger and balance up things. Now is the time to take an in- ventory of the situation and be ready fora new start on a sound healthy founda- tion. Now, while the nation is review- ing the past for the purposes of read- justment, is the very time for every in- dividual to take a good square look at himself as photographed by the past. It will arouse increased energy in guard- ing the present and thereby pave the way for a more prosperous future. To manage our business successfully we must first learn to manage ourselves, and this means a knowledge of ourselves which cannot be acquired without a thorough retrospection. E. A. OWEN. ——_—>-—-———_— A Million for Mr. Depew. Chauncey M. Depew received a letter the other day from a man who said that he meant to will him awmillion dollars. He said that many years ago, when he was poor, Mr. Depew had given him $500. This was his start in life, and he has since succeeded in amassing a couple of millions, which was in sugar plantations in Cuba. The man signs himself Paul Hartchez. Mr. Depew says that he has no recollection of the man, or of advanc- ing him any money, but he says that he has given away a good deal of money at various times, and it is possible that this man may be one of his forgotten benefi- ciaries. This unguarded statement will probably yield him a large crop of beg- ging letters. | place us lowest of all, as every vesture must be closed out. THADESMAN. TO CLOTHING MERCHANTS! 3 We have decided not to carry over any of our fall stock. ready-made clothing of every description; none It will pay you well to see our line of better, few as cheap; and these reduced prices Write our Michigan representative, WILLIAM CONNOR, Box 346, Marshall, Mich., and he will soon be with you. me rArL. BOLE & SON, WHOLESALE CLOTHIERS, ROCHESTER, N. Y- Norice—William Connor will be at Sweets CUSTOMERS’ Hotel, Grand Rapids, Mich., on Wednesday, Thurs- EXPENSES day and Friday, Sept. 20, 21 and 22, West Michi- ene gan Fair week. ALLOWED. APPLE PRESSE conceded by all io Oe thie best. ee (Qa OSTERZAT EVENS O MONROkg ST. THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. AMONG THE TRADE. AROUND THE STATE. West Branch—L. C. Smith H. W. Booth in the drug business. Ishpeming — I. Gustafson Gustafson Bros. in the meat business. Constantine—Raup & Layman succeed Raup & Lintz in the grocery business. Alpena—Geo. Arseaneau & Co. in the grocery business. succeeds sueceeds Darveau | | | Iron Mountain—Geo. J. Dehn sueceeds | | } Dehn & Stutts in the plumbing business. Paris—Bradley & Lonsdale succeed J. L. Davenport & Co. in the grocery busi- ness. zladstone—I. G. Champion succeeds Ritter & Champion in the hardware busi- ness. Ypsilanti—H. F. Frost succeeds C. L. (Mrs. C. H.) Foster in the grocery busi- ness. Minden City—Michael Lemanski suc- ceeds Lemanski & Shommer in general trade. Bad Axe—Donaldson & Kewley, drug- gists, have dissolved, O. E. Kewley suc- ceeding. Tekonsha—Byron Doolittle Simanson & Doolittle in the shoe business. Kalamazoo—Geo. H. Raynor succeeds Beecher & Kymerin the book and sta- tionery business. Brutus—Geo. R. Woodard has sold his drug stock to Dr. Peter Beyer, who will continue the business. Manistique— M. P Winkleman, dry clothing dealer, has closed under chattel mortgage. Grawn—D. was entirely destroyed by succeeds boot and goods and been E. Crandail’s shingle mill Bre Sept. 6G. The loss is about $2,500, with no insur- succeeds F. | | to stand on acredit footing. Knowledge, not faith, in human nature is the ground work upon which to build up a credit business. The weakest point in the re- tail trade in this country is the credit System. A merchant may be an excel- lent salesman, a fine storekeeper, a close | | buyer, a maintainer of prices and may be all that is necessary for the doing of a successful business, but he may losea | great deal through worthless book debts. oe Thirteen Pass at Marquette. At the recent examination session of the State Board of Pharmacy, at Mar- | quette, thirteen candidates successfully passed the examination, as follows: Fannie E. Biglow, Brooklyn, Wis. Andrew Bower, Fort Recovery, Ohio. Benjamin A. Cueny, Cheboygan. John H. Dowdall, Sault Ste. Marie. Wm. R. Faber, Algonac. Geo. S. Kirby, Detroit. Arthur A. Miller, Charlevoix. Frank B. Mix, Manistique. Elbert G. Payne, Roscommon. Wm. Richardson, Carson City. Angus Stewart, Hadley. Hugh L. Vaughan, Charlevoix. Cornelius N. Ware, Alpena. 2 —- me Cured of the Cheese Habit. A grocer in the upper part of the State once cured a cheese-loving baker of his pilfering propensity. On the grocer’s counter there stands at alltimes the half or more of a cheese, with small parings, the excess of sundry pounds and half pounds, placed on the top. The- baker used to drop in several times during the day foratalk. During ihe conversation he would merely, as a digression, lift a paring or two and eat them as if through absence of mind. ‘The grocer at last began to look at it in the aspect of a loss. One day when the shop was pretty full of customers, he spied the baker making | his way to his premises. He therefore placed a small thin par- ing of yellow soap on top of the cheese. ance. Saranac—Ed. I. Arnold has sold the | Finch meat market to I. O. Stebbins, and Mr. Stebbins is cleaver. Hawkhead—Lewis H. Symonds has sold his general stock to Marshall Bug- den, who will continue the business at the same location Shelby—A. D. Wheeler has purchased the interest of Wiil Lacey in the meat business of Hart, Lacey & Hart. Mr. Lacey has removed to Pentwater and taken a position with Plummer & Van Alsburg. Detroit—Fred Zimmer has placed a chattel mortgage on his stock of dry goods, carpets, etc., at 196 and 198 Grat- jot avenue, for $9,615 in favor of Frank E. Robson as trustee for certain credit- ors. The indebtedness S now wielding the After a few moments’ conversation, the fish seized the bait. Foam gathered on his lips, his eyes rolled in his head, and his face assumed a greenish hue. Hurriedly muttering that he had a man to meet, he bolted from the shop. He has called since but never touches cheese. PRODUCE MARKET. Apples—Pippins and Kings are about all there arein market. They command #2.25@’.75 per bbl. Cooking apples $1.75 per bbl. Beans — Dry stock is beginning to arrive. Handlers pay #1 for country cleaned and $1.10 for country picked. Butter — Unchanged. Dealers pay 20¢ for choice diary and hold at 22c. Factory creamery is in modcrate demand at 25@26c. Cabbage—Home grown, $3@3.50 per 100. Carrots—25c per bushel. Celery—Home grown commands 14 @ 16 per doz. Corn—Green, 5@6e per doz. Cucumbers—50c per bu. includes $3,000 to Joseph Weidenbach; $2,000 to the Pe- ninsular Savings Bank; $2,000 to Tefft, Weller & Co. of New York: $855 to! Burnham, Stoepel & Co.; $1,511 to A. Krolik & Co.; $150 to George Co.; $104 to Lyon Bros. & Co. _ > <—— Bad Credits a Reflection on the Mer- chant. When a merchant has an account on his books that he cannot collect, he calls ita ‘**‘bad deot.’’ If, inscead, he called it ‘‘bad credit’? the name would be just as good and would be a constant reminder to him of his own responsibility for the exist- euce of such accounts. A very large portion of the store accounts opened every year are as great a reproach to the ereditor as they are to the debtors. If the latter are too dishonest or too indi- gent to pay, the former are open to cen- sure for admitting customers to credit on an unkuown basis. There should be no risk taken in the matter of credit giving. The customer’s credit and standing | should be known before he is permitted Hadzits & | Indiana and 3@5c for home grown. | 50e per doz., and Musk 29@25c per doz. | Crawfords and Wagers are in market this week Eggs—Slightly weaker. holding at 1344c. Grapes—Concords and Niagaras, 18@20c per 8 lb. basket. Honey—V hite clover commands 12%¢ per Ib, dark buckwheat brings 10c, Melons—Watermelons command 12 @15e for Dealers pay 12%, Peaches—Early Crawfords, Barnards, Red , commanding 9c@#1.50 per bu. This promises to be the big week with early varieties. Pears—Bartletts and Flemish Beauties com- mand $1.75 per bu. Clapp’s Favorites go at $1. 25@1.50. Plumbs—Lombards, Blue Damsons and Green Gages are scarce and high, commanding #2 per bu. Potatoes—Dealers pay 509c per bu., holding at 60c. The advance of 5c per bu. is caused by | drought and prospect of short crop. Sweet Potatoes—Jerseys command $4.50 and Baltimores #4 per bbl. The latter stock is the finest of the kind which ever came to this mar- ket. Tomatoes—5c per bu. Turnips—Home grown, 30c per bu. Congratulations from Ex-President Hamilton. TRAVERSE City, Aug. 29—-Accept my congratulations upon this, the eleventh anniversary of your paper. THE TRADESMAN has now become an important exponent of trade, and no merchant in the State should do without it; in fact, I think but few do. The suc- cess of it is a marked illustration of what unceasing energy, coupled with a desire to serve others in any laudable capacity, will do. Permit me to say still further that the marked improvement, during the years past, is evidenced most clearly by the popular appreciation of the readers, and their consequent gains along the lines of improved methods, harmonious action and commercial honor. Its columns have always been open to the jobber and retailer alike, and both have been served fully as the interests of both have been advanced. Hoping for continued prosperity, I am, Very sincerely, FRANK HAMILTON. —-o-<———_____—— Use Tradesman Coupon Books. FOR SALE, WANTED, ETC. Advertisements will be inserted under this head for two cents a word the first insertion and one cent a word for each subsequent insertion. No advertisements taken for less than 25 cents. Advance payment. BUSINESS CHANCES, oe AS DRUG CLERK by a young lady, graduate, registered in Michigan. Good dress Box 46, sin. W ANTED CLERKSHIP IN A WHOLE-ALE or retall grocery or clothing establish- ment. Best references. Address No. 783, care Michigan Tradesman. Te3 J ANTED—A PARTNER, EITHER ACTIVE or silent, in a paying retail shoe business on one of the principal streets in Grand Rapids. Object. to increase capital commensurate with demand of trade. Address, 784, care Michigan Tradesman. 784 ee OR CLERKSHIP WANTED—BY - a Competent, sober and industrious phar- macist, ten years’ experience. Address No. 71, care Michigan Tradesman. Ts YO EXCHANGE—A STOCK UF MERCHAN dise for unencumbered farm or city prop erty. Address 222 Washington Ave. N., Lan sing, Michigan. 778 OR SALE—General stock of dry goods, gro- ceries and boots and shoes. en y references furnished. Ad- Brooklyn, Green Co., Wiscon- ” 72 $2,009. New stave mill to be erected and on Store in town. Cause for selling. to settle up an estate. Inquire of Thomas Bromley, Jr., admin- istrator, Alvin Shaver estate, St. Johns, Michi- gan. a 7i6 A PAYING MILLINERY BUSINESS FOR sale at Ypsilanti, Mich. C. A Hendrick, V1 232 Congress st., Ypsilanti, Mich ee OR SALE—THE THEODORE KEMINK drug stock and fixtures on West Leonard street. Paying investment. W. H. Van Leeuwen, Room 33, Porter Block, Grand Rapids. G74 OR SALE—Drug stock in business town of 1,200 inhabitants in Eastern Michigan, trib- utary to large farming trade; lake and rail freights; only two drug stores in town; rent. $200 per year; stock will inventory $2,500; sales #20 a day. Reason for selling, owner wishes to retire from business. Address No. 752, care Michigan Tradesman. we Vy ANTED—A practical druggist, with some capital, to take charge of a first-class drug store. Address C. L. Brundage, opera house block, Muskegon, Mich. 756 1s HOUSE AND STOCK OF GRO ceries for sale on Union street. Will sell ata bargain. Address box 634, Traverse City, Mich. 747 Established 1868. HM REYNOLDS & SON, WHOLESALE DEALERS IN Building Papers, Carpet Linings, Asbestos Sheathing Asphalt Ready Roofing, Asphalt Roof Paints, Resin, Coal Tar, Roofing and Paving Pitch, Tarred Felt, Mineral Wool Elastic Roofing Cement, Car, Bridge and Roof Paints, and Oils. Practical Rooters Tn Felt, Composition and Gravel, Cor. LOUIS and CAMPAU Sts.. Mich Akg through Wish * ~ st his refers to Grand Rapids, ¢ ‘rfne Mat who says BEX ou cant afford to give remiums for cash TRADE! sen the other sideae rhe ORY ean dersibeoftheS OR \ BUY THE PENINSULAR Pails, Shirts, aud Overalls Once and You are our Customer for life. Stanton & Morey, DETROIT, MICH. Gro. F, Owen, Salesman for Western Michigan, Residence 59 N. Union St., Grand Rapids. | | UNHEARD Osage bring | OF PRIGES jaa We quote the trade as follows: ‘Americal Printing Go's Blue Pritts, - = - Americal Printing Co's Light Prints, — - ORDER AT ONCE OC AC P. Steketee & Sons, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. | { | ! ‘ \ | | 1 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. GRAND RAPIDS GOSSIP. ‘Mohrhard & Kellogg, meat dealers at 907 227 East Bridge street, have closed their market and retired from business. Max Blank has removed the Diamond Drug store stock from Ellsworth avenue to 416 West Bridge street, corner of Pine street. The Theo. Kemink drug stock, on West Leonard street, was bid in by Henry Idema ai chattel mortgage sale. Assignee Van Leeuwen will now pro- ceed to realize on the real estate. Ruby S. Walbridge informs THE TRADESMAN that the chattel mortgage uttered on her drug stock at 141 South Division street was a purchase mortgage, given the landlord to secure him for the fixtures put into the store. The Committee on Trade Interests of the Retail Grocers’ Association has changed the schedule price on granulated sugar to the following: Fifteen pounds, $1; 71s pounds, 50 cents; 31 pounds, 25 cents; less quantity, 7 cents per pound. The feature of the week was the fail- ure of Nelson, Matter & Co., due to the inability of the corporation to realize on $250,000 worth of World’s Fair paper— that is, notes given by hotels and other enterprises depending upon the World’s Fair. The officers of the corporation had repeatedly promised their local cred- itors that in the event of trouble they would be secured; but, as is nearly al- ways the case, the banks claimed their ‘divine right’’ to priority and succeeded in obtaining security, to the exclusion of many who had loaned the corporation money and furnished it goods. A meet- ing of the creditors will be held ina few days, when a proposition will be made to fund the indebtedness by each cred- itor taking stock in a reorganized com- pany tothe amount of his claim. This is really the only course left to the un- secured creditors, as the assets could not be converted into cash without suffering a fearful shrinkage. The immense plant which served the embarrassed corpora- tion to such good purpose would, proba- bly, have to be sold for less than half its real value. Besides, winding up the business would destroy the good will of forty years, which is estimated to be worth $100,000. In view of these things, it is more than likely that the creditors will conelude to assist the corporation in its present embarrassment, as by so doing they can probably realize, eventually, the full amount of their ciaims. There has been a decided improve- ment in the condition of local financial affairs during the past week. There has been a further increase in the amount of currency held by the banks, and the withdrawal of deposits seems to be en- tirely checked. From the experience of the past two weeks, it is evident that the banks will keep on strengthening their condition through the amounts” of hoarded money which, now that conti- dence has been restored, are finding their way back into circulation. It is now clear that no more money is being | withdrawn from bank than is necessary to meet ordinary trade demands and for use in moving the crops. Should this state of things continue, as there is every reason to believe that it will, it will be but a short time when the banks will find themselves ina position to re- loaning of money. cial horizon has become. sufficiently cleared to feel reasonably ceriain that the storm has passed, it is proper to re- fer to the fact that all of our banks have Now that the finan- passed through the crisis with their repu- | tations unbesmireched and their condi- tion unimpaired. It is true that they have been foreed in self-protection to put a check upon undue drains on their supplies of currency, but at no time have they permitted their customers to suffer unreasonable hardships. During the entire period of the paniz they have maintained the proportion of their cash reserve far above the legal limit, and by their prudence and unity of action have avoided the panicky occurrences and financial disasters which visited so many other large cities in the country. It is but justiee to state that the banks are deeply indebted to the mercantile com- munity for the unwavering support and the cheerful acquiescence in al! regula- tions which have been promptly accorded. The merchants have contented them- selves with the smallest possible assist- ance from the banks, and have so regu- lated their business affairs as to cause the least pressure. This course has been of inestimable value to the financial in- stitutions, and has been as largely in- strumental in keeping the local situation reasonably healthy in the midst of the panie as the well regulated course of the banks themselves. The record made by Grand Rapids during the troubles of the present year will be of great advantage later on in attracting the attention of outside capital. The attention of in- vestors for years to come will undoubt- edly be attracted to those points which have manifested evidences of financial strength and sound business methods during the trying times of the present panic, and we believe that no city has passed through the ordealin better shape than has Grand Rapids. So The Hardware Market. September is beginning to create a de- mand in a small way for general lines of hardware. A slight improvement is no- ticabie all along the line, although money matters continue very clese. The feel- ing seems to be that the worst is over and before long a much easier feeling will prevail. It is to be hoped such will prove to be the case. In sections where fruit and potatoes are the prevailing products dealers are anticipating that a iittle later the demand for them will commence, which will result in bringing in large quantities of money and thus enable them to keep up their accounts and make collections. All kinds of hardware remain stationary. Manufac- turers are not disposed to reduce present prices in order to make sales. Wire Nails—A number of the mills are resuming work in a small way and deal- ers wiil.soon be able to perfect their as- sortments. The price of $1.50@1.55 at mill and $1.70 from stock is being quoted’ quite freely. Barbed Wire—There has been an un- usual demand all through the month of August and it still keeps up during this part of September. lit is regularly quoted at $2.30 for painted and $2.70 for galvanized. Rope—The market is weak. The ef- fort to effect a combination has not yet been successful, and, owing to the tight money market, the price has been shaded. | We quote Se for sisal and 11¢ for manilla store their former methods as to the; in full coil. Gripsack Brigade. Windy Williams, who covers the Sagi- | naw Valley for P. Lorillard & Co., has been spending his summer vacation at St. Clair Flats. A. W. Peck, traveling representative for the Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co., is putting in ten days at the World’s Fair. He is accompanied by his wife. xyeo. F. Schumm takes the trade of Southern Michigan and Northern Indiana for Hawkins & Company formerly cov- ered by D. E. MeVean. Mr. Schumm traveled several years for the wholesale grocery house of John W. Grubb & Co., of Richmond, Ind. A party of commercial travelers on the road were boasting about the magnitude of the houses they represented, when one, who was the last to speak, said: “Gentlemen, I wouldn’t like to tell you anything about the size of our premises or the stock we carry or the number of people we employ, because you might think I was exaggerating. But when we took stock of ouremployes last week, we found that six cashiers and three bookkepers had absconded three months before, and had never been missed!’ se ABOUT DOLLS. Michigan dealers who have given the matter any attention know that H. Leon- ard & Sons, 134-140 East Fulton street, are headquarters for dolls of every de- scription. There is not so complete an exhibit of this staple in any western city, not excepting Chicago or St. Louis, as can be seen on their sample tables, now ready for the fall trade. The line includes everything in china, bisque, patent washable, and kid dolls of every sort. Every style of heads, bodies, wigs, arms, and an innumerable line of dressed dolls in new,and in many cases, exclusive styles, in short, the assortment is bewil- dering, and means all the ‘“‘leaders” in 10 cent, 25 cent, 50 cent and $1 goods, which are from 10 to 30 per cent. below last season’s prices. They are now preparing their full illustrated catalogue showing dolls and holiday goods, which will be sent out to the trade about Oct. 1. If you are coming to the city soon, makea note to drop in and look over styles and prices, and see their newly-fitted sample room. oO F. J. Dettenthaler is the first in the field with his celebrated ‘‘Anchor’’ brand of oysters, which have maintained a leading position in the oyster trade for the past ten years. Owing to the en- largement of his store, Mr. Dettenthaler isin better shape than ever this year to meet the demands of his trade. KALAMAZOO PANY & OVERALL CO, 221 K,. Main St., Kalamazoo, Mich, Our entire line of Cotton Worsted Pants on hand to be sold at cost for cash. If interested write for samples. Milwaukee Office: Room 502 Matthew Build ing. Our fall line of Pants from $9 te #42 per dozen are now zeady. An immense line of Kersey Pants, every pair warranted not to rip. Bound —— entire line sent on approval to the rade. } | A Solace Sweet and best by far, in these quiet times Smoke a Ben-Hur Cigar. GEO. MOEBS & CO. Make them, All leading dealers sell them. / | ie esi ll hat mw wa © i 4 a 4 Se % S 7 SS A LADY'S GENUINE : VICI : SHOE, Plain toe in opera and opera toe and (, S. heel. D and E and E E widths, at $1.50. Patent leather tip, $155. Try them, they are beauties. Stock soft and fine, flexible and elegant fitters. Send for sample dozen. REEDER BROS. SHOE CO, Grand Rapids, Mich. Portraits, Buildings, Cards, Letter and Note Headings, Patented Articles, Maps and Plans. TRADESMAN COFIPANY, Grand Rapids, Mich. Your Bank Account Solicited. Kent County Savings Bank, GRAND RAPIDS ,MICH. Jno. A. CovopgE, Pres. Henry Ipema, Vice-Pres. J. A. S. VERDIER, Cashier. K, Van Hor, Ass’t C’s’r. Transacts a General Banking Business. Interest Allowed on Time and Sayings Deposits. DIRECTORS: Jno, A. Covode, D. A. Blodgett, E. Crofton Fox, T. J.O’Brien, A.J. Bowne, Henry Idema, Jno. W.Blodgett,J. A. McKee J. A. S. Verdier. Deposits Exceed One Million Dollars, 6 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. Observations of an Old-time Merchant. | Dry Goods Price Current. ee _— eee absence of s reeks av moskeag...... 3 columbian br After iy absence of vie pcipins - - » I have ——— COTTONS. 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Cine Meme............ 7% oe ee ee the nineteenth century. shorts 8 |Qak Vie View.. ie pay Uren aa, a ee ee “ oan... ; oor oon... 5 Business men of twenty-five years ago oe ie coeeeue a Woot 12 Pane ite 15%4| Georgia .. 15 would scarcely know ‘‘where they were Diwee csmrs cere 7G oweltnd............ 7% | Stark..........-..+- . a . : Frnit ofthe Loom. 8% Suniight.. .... 4% | American...., ric bo 15% ee cae wees at’? were they to step into the arena) Fitchyille ........ 7 iUtica Mills Ht “* 8% THREADS. a arial li the prese First Prize... .. 7 a onpareil ..10 Y . of active commercial life of the present, Fruit of the Loom %. 7%|Vinyard............. 8% —_ os End.. o Eotens >. ede ee . and if you make it forty years ago or more Ealeonount ee — ——--- oe ¢ a. a rT r Wee a ’ gy | Holyoke............. the difference is far more marked. For ' ” “er BLEACHED PEs * KNITTING COTTON. das een inet beacon “te-Gchin’?? | Cepet.... ---.--.---- 74|Dwight Anchor..... 8% White. Colored. White. Colored instance, I have just been ‘‘a-fishin’. ae a ait ie a 3 38 ae 7 a (That is what they call it, though the fact CANTON FLANNEL. tee ag oe 0c 96. ee 43 : i ee. Bleached. we 35 -_ es ee 44 is that | camped a good deal more than I| | qousewife A. Sig Housewife Q a Sci ise ae 45 fished.) What seems remarkabie is that a a an = te 7% CAMBRIC8, see Feel as P this ex- “ a 6% “ el Bie ee a 4%4(Edwards........... 4% I do not eem to feel ashamed of this ex : uae : c oo s Su ine ~~ rir) pedition, though when I was a boy the ue - The “ . a ee Ceee........... 44 ees: a - 4% i ‘6 ~ ” “ y sowmarket......... business man who sought recreation Tl ae a /. ee Newmarket arm omnia 1% with rod or gun did so under a sort of cL : wee ceee oe ni - stteeee ise ee Bal test. 2 ° > sneake a (aoe 2... ... 5 “the Kent.”’ Directly Opposite Union Depot AMERICAN PLAN RATES, $2:PER DAY STEAM HEAT AND ELECTRIC BELLS FREE BAGGAGE TRANSFER FROM UNION DEPOT. BEACH & BOOTH, Props. AYLAS SOAP Is Manufactured only by HENRY PASSOLT, Saginaw, Mich. For general laundry and family washing purposes. Only brand of first-class laundry soap manufactured in the Saginaw Valley. Having new and largely in- ereased facilities for manu- facturing we are well prepar- ed to fill orders promptly and at most reasonable prices. Halon, Lyo & C0, SCHOOL BOOK, SCHOOL SUPPLIES, TABLETS, SLATES. AND A FULL LINE O STAPLE STATIONERY, 20 & 22 Monroe St. Cuas. B. |. E. B. Sermo __, Sec’y. . HANNEN, Supt. OOK INDING co. “Chicago” Linen Hinge and Mullins Patent Flat Opening Books. SPECIAL BOOK BINDING. Telephone 1243. 89 Pearl street, Old Houseman Block, Grand Rapids, Mich. Took the Wrong Clothes. The following rather ghastly story is vouched for by the undertaker connected with the startling but humorouscase. A farmer living a few miles out of Minne- apolis recently sent one of his hands into the city to purchase a coffin and robe for one of his men who had died of sun- stroke the day before. This fellow was one of the kind who had an eye for trade where he saw he could benefit himself, and was not over troubled by any con- scientious scruples as to his methods. After he returned with the coffin, the farmer ordered him to prepare as best he could the body of his dead comrade for burial. The unsophisticated fellow did as he was ordered; but as he pro- ceeded with his operations he could not help thinking that the burial garment provided by the undertaker was much better than his own best suit of clothes. He argued to himself that the dead man had no use for such fine clothes, and con- cluded that they would prove far more useful to himself. Accordingly he went to his own room and brought down his best “‘extry” suit, and after considerable difficulty succeeded in getting them on the corpse. With subtle imagination he pictured himself dressed in the new and elegant suit of black that would make the other fellows jealous with envy, and above all would prove so pleasing to the eyes of his best girl. But this dream was suddenly dispelled when in the quiet of his own room early the same evening he attempted to clothe himself in the dead man’s garments. It was then that he madethe astounding discovery that they had no back, which awful fact he had not discovered before. He then tried to think of some means whereby he eould get back his — clothes from the innocent corpse in the darkened room below, but he was finally obliged to give it up, as the watchers were on the alert. He now mourns—not so much for the death of his comrade, but the loss of the only ‘‘extry’’ suit of clothes that he pos- sessed in the world. — -@- _< What They Had Forgotten. An English exchange relates howa delegation of strikers visited a mill pro- prietor, and, after demanding forty-four hours per week at the same old pay, the dismissal of an obnoxious manager, a little light refreshment in the middle of each afternoon, no new hands to be em- ployed until they (the workmen) had said they were willing to work with them, a fortnight’s holiday and double pay once a year, the following dialogue took place: ‘Exactly; what more?’’ tomayters jest “That’s all, sir, at present.’’ “No, it isn’t. Think again. I’m sure there’s something else.”’ “Wo, Sir.” “Well, Pll just tell you then. You’ve arranged your hours of work?” “«Vos, Sir.” “You’ve managed to have the mana- ger dismissed?’’ “Vos, sir.” ‘“‘And the refreshments, and the holi- days and the other matters you’ve men- tioned?”’ “Vos, sir” “But you’ve forgot one thing, and that is to arrange to get some d—— fool to pay your wages on Saturday, for 1 won’t. Good morning.” <2 -@- <-—— When a commercial firm goes under it is not very firm. Hardware Price Current. These prices are for cash buyers, who pay promptly and buy in full packages. AUGURS AND BITS. dis. ee ee eee 60 eee 40 Jennings’, GonuUINE...... .....-- esses eee ee se 25 Jennings’, imitation ...... eee ane oe 50&10 AXES. First Quality, SB Bees. ... 2... $ 7 00 > B. Bronze.. ax 00 . B. S. Steel... 8 00 : 3. a . 13 50 BARROWS dis, Rio 8 14 06 ee ee ee ees net 30 00 —— 50&10 Carriage new list. Sleigh Ee ee BUCKETS. er ee eee tees cal $350 ee 400 BUTTS, CAST. dis. Cast Looe Pin, Aeured........ ...-...-..... 0& Wrought Narrow, bright 5ast joint.......... 60&.0 : | Wee teers... 60&10 Sede noes 60&10 | Wrougms Tamie............ Wert eee Pie... 60410 | Wee Pees... 7 | ied, Gieeee................ ee cee ecules 70&10 | Ee 70&10 | TE, 70 BLOCKS. Ordinary Tackle, list April 1992. - 60&10 | CRADLES, eee eee dis. 50&02 | CROW BARS, | Coat meoe perb 5 | CAPS. Pts... per m 65 Hick’s c Eee 60 of... . 35 Muehes......... 5... ee 60 CARTRIDGES, ae Pee... 50 ere Pee. dis. 25 CHISELS dis. O_O eee 7O&10 Becee Oraeeee ............... 2... 70&10 BOGROSCCOMIOE. .... 8. ee ee ee ee wee 70410 Ee + es. OGRA BRoteherm Tengod Firmer.............-..... 40 COMBS. dis. Cures, Lawrences. ........... 40 OE 2 CHALE. White’Crayons, per gross.......... 12@12% dis, 10 COPPER, Planished, 14 on Cut to gize... .. per pound 28 14x ee, Wee, Pee ................ 26 Cold Rolled, 14x56 and 14x60. | 23 Cold Rolled, 14x48. . . a. 23 ee 25 DRILLS. dis. morse) ee Oerore.........,........6.2..,, 50 Taper and straight Shank................... 50 Mores Peper anenk.................. 50 DRIPPING PANS. a ov Lengo tisce per poumad............... ..... Ge ELBOWS. Com. 4 piece, $ in. ..dos. _ 5 CC eee 40 ee... aie 40810 EXPANSIVE BITS. dis. Clark’s, emall. $18; large, @26............... 30 vee’, 5. Ga: & See: ae ................... 25 FILES—New List. dis. Daemon 8...........................--......- 60&10 tree Aerie... ... 60&10 oe i ee 60&10 eT 50 Heller’ . es. .........-..., 50 | GALVANIZED IRON. Nos. 16 to 20; 22 and 24; 2 and 2%; 27 28 List bo 13 14 15 16 7 Discount, 60 GAUGES. dis. Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s............... 50 KNOoBs—New List. dis. Door, mineral, jap. trimmings .............. 55 Door, porcelain, jap. Geariaings............ 55 Door, porcelain, plated trimmings.......... 55 Deer, porcelein, trimmings ................ 55 Drawer and Shutter, porcelain............. 7 LOCKS—DOOR dis, Russeil & Irwin Mfg. Co.’ s new list ....... 55 Matorg, Wheeler & Co.'s................... 55 ee 55 ee 55 MATTOCES. Boones. $16. > dis. 60 eee eee. $15.00, dis. 60 ee $18.50, dis. —" 8. Sperry & Co.’s, Post, ‘handled Bee ones oe . LLS. is. Coffee, Parkers Co.'s 40 PS. & WW. Mfg. Co.’s Mali eables.. 40 . Landers, Perry & Cores. ..........-. 40 ‘6 Enter prise ee ee ae ek wenn os 30 : MOLASSES GATES. dis, Seen se Paseo... ..............6.---s .- CO&1G Stebbin’s Genuine........... Se 66610 Enterprise, seif-measuring............ “— 25 NAILS Advance over base, on both Steel and Wire. Sica! ware bene... 50 a nails, eee... 5... 1 75@1 380 Lee sce sued od curenmn ee Base boca 10 25 25 35 ee ecu ee 45 eS 45 ww... 50 a 60 Ge avec cess ee 7 2 12 Oo ake cc comes cee ew eee 1 60 Mines... 1 60 caer ............................. 65 . : Ee 75 ec cael 90 Finish . ea eee ees ome meas euen 7 eee tate a sce wane 90 Mey 8 ee ee 110 citpehz10. ee 70 aS oe 80 Bs ee ce oo 90 Barrell % eee cee ce pees - ese < PLANES. dix. Ohio Tool Co.'s, fancy ........ ee av eS 50 Sandusky Tool Co.'s, fancy ee @40 Bench, first quality .... .... 00. -20-ecseceseee @40 Stanley Rule and Level! Co.’s wood. 50.219 PANS. Mee, AOme.... 2... 2.2... 5.3. ee eee dis.60—10 Coanen., pollahed ae cece tte een a wn RIVETS. is, ones el’ Who... .... .....-...-......-s.- 40 Copper Rivets and Burs...............+ ..-. 50-10 PATENT FLANISHED IRON. “A” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 to +e 10 20 Gate, Clark's, 1,2, 2... “BR” Wood's 8 Pat. planished, Nos. 25 to 27... 9 20 Broken packs %¢ per pound extra. 7 HAMMERS. Mavome &Cee...... 8... ss. ais. 25 Kip’s. i dis. 25 i Yerkes & Plumb’ is. dis. 40610 Mason’s Solid Cast Steel... ai es ..e0e list 60 Biscksmith’s - Be 40210 Solid Cast Steel Hand.. HINGES. . dis. 47" State. “per ‘doz. net, 2 Screw Hook and Strap, io 12 In. 4% 14 and TOE 3% | Se Tew Hook and EYC, Yee eee sree cece eee net 10 se oe “ = ee 7 -net 3% | oe net T% “ - . secs wu. 208 ts Braye y.... dis 50 HANGERS. Gis. Barn Door Kidder Mfe. Co., Wood track... .50&10 Ceespion, antl Triction................-... 60&10 Hidder, wood Gack ................ / 40 BROLLOW WARE. Pom ee OE .. 60419 eras s.r Gray SINE -- 40810 HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS. Steeped Via Ware................,.. -new list 73 mereeee Te weere........ «..o0-.......... Granite Tron Ware ............... new list inet WIRE €00D3. Bilght.. : qo&i0e10 Screw Eyes.. -7&10&10 eon) ..............,... WO&1CH10 Gate Hooks and Byes............... TIS1OS10 LEVELS. fis.7% Stanley Rule and Level Co.'s... ! ROPES, Sisal, 4% inch and —_— a § Mantila....... . ph SQUARES, dis, Seeelanmd rom... 6.1... a 7% 7) one Beves................ 6 ire... oe. 2 SHEET IRON, Com. Smoota. Com Noe 1000 14....................... oe Ge CO eos oo 3 95 ee 4 05 8 05 2 ......................... 3 15 age ao Ss +32 3 25 eee Cl 3 35 xn sheets No. 18 and lighter, soneae inches wide not less than 2-10 extra SAND PAPER. Eee eet Oo... dia. Be SASH CORD. Silver Lake, White A betes oe 5G men A... ........ ' 55 _ woe 2... ' 50 beg MO eee eee nc ans . 55 . Weeec..... ..............." a5 Discount, 10. SASH WELGHTS, Solid Eyes...... r ton $25 dis. iy Hen 2 Silver Steel Dia. X Cuts, per foot,.... 70 ‘* Special Steel Dex X Cuts, per foot.. 50 ‘* Special Steel Dia. X Cuts, perfoot.... 30 “ Champion and Electric Tooth X Cuts, per fodt............ ... <6 30 TRAPS, Ate, Steel, Game...... oe 60850 Oneida Community, Newhouse’ ST Oneida Community, Hawley « Norton‘s.... ~ Mouse, ChOMee i8¢ per doz Mouse, Orem $1.50 per doz WIRE. dis Brig Mareet.... ............... Annealed Market. Meee twee eg dee, eee OE Tinned Market. . a 52! ee eeteeeeea-. 6244, Coppered Spring Se con 50 Barped Fenced, gaivanised.................. 2 80 - pales. 2 40 HORSE NAILS. Au Se... Cj... dis. 40&10 Pome |... ce dis. 05 Morse wouwtern.....-.......-........ div, 1010 WRENCHES. dis. Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled........ oo a Coe’s Genuine ..... ous 50 Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wroughi,. a. 7 Coe’s Patent, malleable.... ' " 75&10 MISCELLANEOUS. dis. Bo Gee. se Pumps, Cistern.. ees T5&10 Screws, New List. - 70&10 Casters, Bed a d ae Acne 50d 101C Dampers, American..................s0e0e++ Forks, hoes, rakes and all steel goods..... eraio METALS, PIG TIN. ee Eee. 26 ee ee 28¢ ZINC. Duty: Sheet, gpl - eet. 600 pound casks. . i. 6% Ter eee... ..... oo eaet te 7 SOLDER. eae le EEE EE it The prices of the many other qualities of solder in the market Indicated by private brand: vary according te Composition. ANTIMONY Cookson.. See ue ues «-se+--. Dar DOUG ee “ 13 TIN—MELYR ORADB. 10x14 7 aa. oe ne 4x20 IC, : . . 10x14 IX, va 14x20 . 1a, ‘ Each additional X on this grado, $1.75. TIN—ALLAWAY GBADE, 10x14 IC, —: Se $6 7 14x20 IC, ee toxi4 IX, ' SE 9 28 i gattional X on this gr ade $1.50. OFING PLATSS 14x20 IC, e Worcomer, ee eee 6 Su 14x20 IX, oe a 8 55 20x28 IC, " ee ne 13 50 14x20 IC, “« Allawey Grade........... 6 00 14x20 IX, Mae ceca cua: 7 50 20x28 IC, . " Obese ees cae 12 60 20x28 IX, - _ a 15 50 BOILER SIZE TIN PLATS, 14x56 TX, ‘for No. Boilers, 14x60 Ix, “ Lee ana... aa THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN A WEESRLY JOUSNAL DEVOTED TO THE Best Interests of Business Men. Published at 100 Louis St., Grand Rapids, — BY THE — TRADESMAN COMPANY. One Dollar a Year, Payable in Advance. ADVERTISING RATES ON APPLICATION. Communications inyited from practical busi- ness men. Correspondents must give their full name and address, not necessarily for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith. | tions. Recently, however, with neither | the surplus nor abnormal imports to de- pend upon, the Treasury has been | brought face to face with a deficiency. The extent of the probable deficit for the present fiscal year is, of course, | impossible to estimate at this early date; but, from the present outlook, it is pretty | sure to be a substantial one, and accord- | ing to the Washington estimates, it is | believed that at the close of June next | the expenditures will be fully $50,000,- 000 more than the revenues of the Gov- | ernment. | While the Treasury Department has, | apparently, taken no steps to meet the | threatened emergency, and has addressed | no recommendations to Congress, through | the President, on the subject, it is well | known that the situation has already re- Subscribers may have the mailing address of | ceived the careful consideration of Sec- their papers changed as often as desired. Sample copies sent free to any address. Entered at Grand Rapids post office as second- class matter. G2 When writing to any of our advertisers, please say that you saw their advertisement in THe MiIcHIGAN TRADESMAN, E. A. STOWE, Editor. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1893. DECENNIAL ANNIVERSARY. if THe TRADESMAN needed any token of held Grand Rapids people, this week’s issue the esteem in which it is by furnishes ample proof. When financiers like Wm. Widdicomb and Clay H. Hol- lister and busy wholesale dealers like S. F. M and L. J. Rindge will throw aside pressing busi- Stevens, S. Lemon ness duties long enough to prepare an article for THe TRADESMAN’S readers in celebration of its tenth anniversary, the position THrt TRADESMAN occupies | as the mouthpiece of the wholesale trade of this market would appear to be assured. Equally reassuring is the large and constantly increasing list of subscribers | among the retail merchants of Michigan and Northern Indiana, many of whom have taken the paper since its first issue and nearly all of whom unite in pro- nouncing it worth many times the price of subscription. Heartily thankful for past patronage, and confident that the future will bring a still further increase of material bless- ings, THe TRADESMAN enters upon its second decade, firm in the belief that age and experience will enable it to make a better paper, and serve its patrons to better purpose, in the future than it has been able to in the past. PROBABLE TREASURY DEFICIT. Aside from perplexities the existing financial situation, the National Treasury has to contend with another and very serious The the past two months show conclusively that the revenue of the Governmeut no suffices to meet the expenditures. the of embarrassment. receipts and expenditures of longer This fact has been apparent before during the past few years, but the deficit was made good from the splendid surplus at that time carried in the Treasury. During the greater part uf last year imports were uncommonly heavy and served to keep the revenues up to normal propor- | retary Carlisle. It is expected that, in | due season, he will recommend to Con- | gress the enactment of such legislation | as will swell the National revenues. For ; the present, however, the National ad- | ministration is not disposed to embarrass |Congress with any legislation which | might serve to withdraw attention from | the bill now being considered, providing | for the repeal of the silver purchasing clause of the Sherman law. The measures to be recommended to Congress to provide for increased rev- enue will, of course, be included in the | Democratic scheme of tariff reform. As /such a bill is likely to make radical provisions in existing laws, and will un- | doubtedly precipitate a long-drawn-out | discussion, it is not probable that a new | tariff bill will be introduced at the spe- cial session. Tariff revision will, how- | ever, be the main work of the regular | session beginning in December, and the | several months yet to elapse before the | advent of the opening day will afford the Treasury Department further experience upon which to base estimates of the | probable deficiency for the fiscal year. | Whatever may have been the evils at- tending the accumulation of the large surplus which existed during Mr. Cleve- |land’s first administration, they had many counterbalancing advantages, whereas the existing deficiency is incon- venient in many respects and promises to cause much trouble before remedial measures are adopted by Congress. | | | i | | From many of the speeches made in Congress we are led to believe that the financial ideas of the average Congress- man are mostly sound. The people are taking business lessons just now, but at somewhat expensive rates of tuition. From Out of Town. Calls have been received at THE TRADESMAN Office during the past week from the following gentlemen in trade: A. M. Wilkinson, Atwood. H. Brownyard, Lake. Frank Hamilton, Traverse City. H. W. Worden, Buon. A. W. Fenton & Son, Bailey. W. G. Tefft, Rockford. Walbrink & Sons, Allendale. Hannah & Lay Mercantile Co., Trav- erse City. Dr. Peter Beyer, Brutus. Arthur Mulholland, Ashton. a The Dry Goods Market. The American Printing Co. has re- duced the price of its blue prints le and its light prints }¢c, making the present prices 5c and 4c, respectively. The Grocery Market. Sugar—There is no change in price at the refinery, but the scarcity of granu- lated has caused an advance of ‘ge for spot goods by the jobbers. The demand is heavy and jobbers are very generally cutting all orders in two—shipping half the quantity ordered in each case. In all probability the famine will prevail until the end of the fruit season, when the demand will resume its normal con- dition. Oranges—In light supply but fully equal to the demand, other fruits crowd- ing them out. What oranges there are, however, are of fair quality, though cold storage has injured the St. Michael’s to some extent, but this line is practi- eally out of the market. Prices are down nearly 50 per cent. with the pros- pect of a further decline. Lemons—The demand for this fruit is moderate but steady. The market has little ‘‘go’’? in it, for the reason that the quality can hardly be called fair, being mostly hard and coarse. Bananas—Are still in the market, with supply fully equal to the demand, which variable. The changeable weather makes this a most unsatisfactory fruit to handle. There is neither pleasure nor profit in it. Pork—Took a big jump last week, the advance being from $1.50@2.50 per bar- rel. The corner on mess pork fully ac- counts forthe rise in that cut, while strong demand and weak supply is to blame for the rest of it. Any prediction for even a week ahead would, most likely, prove to be away off, but if the strength of the past few weeks is any criterion, the prospects for pork are good. Corn Syrup—The advance in corn is having its effect on syrup, manufactur- ers having advanced their quotations ic per gallon. Coffee — Manufacturers of package brands have advanced their quotations gC. is 9 —<—— - Purely Personal. Frank Hamilton, the Traverse City clothier, was in town over Sunday, on his way home from the World’s Fair. J. J. Herrick, of Herrick Bros., grocers at Lansing, is, with his wife, visiting his uncle, E. J. Herrick, the Monroe street grocer. Geo. R. Mayhew, the Monroe street shoe dealer, has gone to Mt. Clemens to seek relief from the attacks of Old Rheum. H. Montague, manager of the Hannah & Lay Mercantile Co., at Traverse City, was in town a couple of days ago on his way to Chicago and the World’s Fair. The heartfelt sympathy of the trade will go out to Lester J. Rindge in his great bereavement, the death of his wife. Mrs. Rindge was a woman of rare accom- plishments and was honored and admired by a large circle of friends. L. M. Wolf, the Hudsonville merchant, tells a good story on M. S. Goodman, Secretary and Treasurer of the Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co. It appears that Goodman spent Sunday with Wolf a short time ago and that the host invited him over to the creamery to take a drink of buttermilk. Instead of dipping the glass in the buttermilk jar, Wolf attacked the can of separator cream instead, greatly to the delight of Mr. Goodman, who pro- nounced the ‘‘buttermilk’’ richer than the cream he is in the habit of getting from the city milk man. Continued from Page 20. probably, about 300 pounds per week. In shell goods the following would bea fair estimate: live soft shell crabs, about 450 dozen per annum, and about 200 bar- rels of shell oysters and clams per an- num. The fish trade, including everything that the term implies, has more than trebbled within the past ten years. One of the houses above enumerated did a business last year amounting to over $68,000. Lovers of fresh salt water fish no longer sigh for a return to the “‘little cottage down by the sea,’’ for in the fish markets of Grand Rapids may be found fresh cod, haddock, halibut, blue fish, salmon, red snappers, bonito, mackerel, weak fish and sea trout. F. J. DETTENTHALER. Crockery and Glassware. The trade in crockery and glassware has seen great changes in this market in the past ten years — changes not to be measured alone by dollars and cents, although the figures would easily show an enormous increase, but in the facili- ties for doing business in the new blocks and warehouses, and especially in the Custom House, which enables the buyer in this city to enjoy privileges in the way of prices and conveniences in han- dling which were enly possible before to the largest cities in the country. Owing to these advantages, there have come into common use the daintiest products of the English, French and German factories, and these new lines of highly-finished, thin decorated ware are from 25 to 50 per cent. lower than simi- lar goods made in our American fac- tories, and but little higher than the white ware so universally used a decade ago. The business now extends also into the finest art goods, and there is a steady demand for the most celebrated and ex- pensive wares, such as Sevres, Dresden, Vienna, the English Royal Worcester, Doulton, Cauldon and others. Perhaps the most popular of all is the beautiful Dresden china, owing to its sweet and pretty decorations, which have been sent out in similar patterns from that famous old city for nearly 200 years. The dealers in this city are now able to carry some of the handsomest pieces of this china, as well as many other frail and beautiful wares unthought of here ten years ago. In glassware there has been a corres- ponding increase, until we have now heavy and varied stocks in every depart- ment of the line. F. E. LEONARD. >_>. > Grains and Feedstuffs. Wheat—The market is brightening, the upward tendency being more marked and stronger than for many months. The quality of the grain is considerably above last year’s, with a consequent im- provement in the quality of the flour. The cereal is moving better than last week, and what comes to market is read- ily taken. Corn—Higher than last week. The dry weather has forced farmers to cut before the grain was ripe to save the fodder. Corn is, therefore, likely to be searce and high. Flour—Active and steady without a change or new feature of any kind. Bran—No change. Everything taken as soon as ground. Middlings—Steady, without change. __>-+>—_ Fred H. Ball and family have returned from the World’s Fair. TEN YEARS OLD. Progress of “The Tradesman’’---Bio- graphical Sketch of Its Career. With the issue of last week THE MicHIGAN TRADESMAN closed its tenth year of publication. The issue of this week therefore marks the beginning of a second decade, which the publishers hope will compass as many improvements and additions to the publication as the past ten years have witnessed. It is needless to state that the expecta- tions indulged in when Tor TRADESMAN was established have been more than realized. The editor’s faith in his un- dertaking was sanguine, but he had no idea that within the space of ten years it would develop into a handsome property and become so prominent a feature of the commercial life of the State that it would be referred to with pride, and eonsulted with confidence, by a large portion of the merchants of Michigan. The achievement of such a result is due quite as much to the broad-minded liber- ality of its patrons as to the far-sighted- ness of its founder. Of the future intentions of THE TRADESMAN, little need be said. Its eareer has been marked by progress and improvement at every step and it is put- ting it mildly to state that the past is an earnest of what the future has in store. In general, however, it may be stated that the policy of the past will be con- tinued in the future. Frankness in statement and honesty in action will be the guiding stars. No attempt will be made to build itself up by tearing down others. The aim of the editor will be to make a paper that will be especially adapted to the everyday wants of the people who take it and pay for it. It May not be up to the high standard of some similar journals in the larger cities, but the cordial manner in which it is supported by both subscribers and ad- vertisers proves conclusively that it meets their requirements to a degree that ensures acontinuance of their patronage. Biographical. The first issue of THk TRADESMAN appeared Sept. 26, 1883, being the cul- mination of a desire which had been cherished by the founder for three or four years. In furtherance of this idea the following circular was printed and mailed to the wholesale trade of this market in 1880: To the Wholesale Trade of Grand Rapids: Recognizing the fact that for several years the various branches of the Whole- sale Trade in this City have felt the need of an authorized representative of their interests, and that the retail trades- men who look to this market for their supplies have felt the want of a reliable commercial guide, the subscriber is pleased to announce that in case suffi- cient encouragement is extended to the undertaking, he will shortly begin the publication of *‘THe Micu1GAn TRADES- MAN,’’ a weekly trade journal issued from the Grand Rapids market, paying especial attention to the wants of the patrons of this mercantile center, and yet being of such a general character that it will be of interest to all engaged in wholesale or retail traffic anywhere. It will be the aim of the publisher to make the contents of the journal as varied and interesting as possible. One entire page will be given to current quotations, furnished by representative wholesale dealers, and a weekly review of home and foreign markets will be carefully prepared by acompetent writer on the subject. The movements of re- tail dealers and the business changes of all who are in any way connected with the various branches of trade will be ehronicled. The ‘“‘Gripsack Brigade’’ will be given due prominence in a de- partment which will be conducted by a | they were identified with the project by | retired traveler. Original and selected | reason of the advice and proffered sup- | articles of interest to je trade and 8 port they had given itin advance of pub-| news of the day will also be an especial —— It is a noticeable fact that | feature of the journal. | these men have remained steadfast sup- | “THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN” will not porters of THe TRADESMAN, nothing | | partake of the nature of an advertising | |short of death causing them to relin-| sheet, which is dependent entirely upon |") | the generosity of advertisers, but rather | quish their patronage. will rely for support upon an extensive| The first issue was heartily welcomed | and good paying subscription patronage | by the trade, both wholesale and retail, from retail dealers, which will be se-i but many shook their heads and regret- 7 | | Pe. | ee Type i) re | Cem pos/or: Stand Svand. a oO eee. 4 | /mposing Stone j ' En Cot Dead ee ——— sie Stone ' | osing Olone | | | ne cnn ce . a ' | Compesilor Sand | } BIRTHPLACE OF ‘‘THE TRADESMAN.” that the limits to admit of cured immediately after the publication of the paper is begun. Until that time the paper will be sent gratuitously to all), | merchants doing business in towns con-| These gentlemen have since acknow!]- tiguous to Grand Rapids. A limited|edged their cheerfully advertisements reputa- | : . number of advertisements, (om repma | whecled into line as patrons and well equal prominence. With a view to as-| Wishers. The first issue contained the certaining whether the sentimentin favor| aavertisements of Cody, Ball & Co.. of a publication as above described is strong enough to ensure it a living sup- fully predicted were too circumscribed success. mistake and | Spring & Company, H. Leonard & Sons, port, the prospective subscriber will | Hazeltine, Perkins & Co., Putnam & shortly call upon the leading representa-| Brooks, Jennings & Smith and Calkins tives of the trade here, and for the pur-| Bros., all of whom except Calkins Bros., pose of receiving assurances of support. Bespeaking kind consideration for the the project, I am, very truly, E. A. STOWE. who are out of business, are still repre- sented in our columns, although the firm names have been changed in some cases. PRESENT HOME OF ‘'THE TRADESMAN.”’ From seven advertising patrons the list has increased to seventy-five, while the subscription list has expanded from a few hundred to the largest paid list of any journal of its class in the United States. It would be untrue to convey the im- pression that there has been nothing but smooth sailing all the time for the past ten years. On the contrary, there have been dark days which seem to be insep- Similar cireulars were issued and mailed in 1881 and 1882, but the re- sponses were so few and feeble that the project was deferred. In the meantime the necessity for sucha criterion was demonstrated by correspondence and communication with several hundred re- tail dealers in all parts of the State, nu- merous pledges to subscribe for such a journal being secured in this man- ner, so that when the first number made its appearance it was welcomed by sev- eral hundred merchants who felt that erable from every business, when patrons appear lukewarm and friends are at a! 9 premium. Fortunately, such periods have been few and far between, and they are chiefly valuable to any business by reason of their inculeating in the minds of all the value and necessity of self- reliance. Makers of the Paper. At the inception of THe TRADESMAN the name of E. A. Stowe appeared as edi- tor and proprietor. Six months later the ownership changed to E. A. Stowe & Bro. by the formation of a co- partnership with W. A. Stowe. Seven years later the property was merged into a stock company under the style of the Tradesman Company, which has a paid in capital of $30,000, and takes front rank among the dividend paying corpora- tions of the city. In the editorial was of the paper there has been no change since the beginning, E. A. ously supervision Stowe having continu- dictated its editorial policy and been absent from the office but one issue of the paper. That he has made mis- takes—many of them, in fact—he is frank to admit, but they have been errors of incident rather than intention, and an indulgent eclientage has, in most instances, cheerfully overlooked and con- doned them. During the career of the paper it has had the benefit of the best thoughts of some of the best writers on trade topics, enabling ‘t to the claim that itis the most widely quoted of any trade journal in the country. The late F. H. Spencer, of Saranac, was a regular contributor up to the time of his death, his ‘‘Leisure Hour Jottings” having become a feature which was sadly missed when it ceased appearing. maintain The ‘‘Solomon Snooks’’ sketches, from the pen of O. H. Richmond, rapidly took rank with the contributions of many humorists of national reputation and several of them are still making the rounds of the papersin this and foreign countries. Frank H. Howig was for several months on the staff of the paper and did excellent work in several directions. E. A.;Owen has been a regular con- tributor for several years, having cov- ered nearly every subject within the range of commercial affairs and won warm encomiums from all sides. Few writers are more widely quoted and few command a more respectful hearing. S. P. Whitmarsh has been an occa- sional contributor for nearly two years and has invariably written well. His articles evince careful study and pains- taking*preparation and have come to be considered authoritative on the subjects discussed. T. H. Thurston and Geo. L. Thurston have written altogether too little for our ‘columns, consequent upon the increasing demands of their own growing business. Their contributions are always welcome, being based on actual experience behind the counter, and pointing morals appar- ent to all. In April of this year the position of assistant editor was tendered to, and ac- cepted by, Daniel Abbott, a newspaper worker of considerable experience in this “country and Canada. Mr. Abbott has already left his impress on the paper and THE TRADESMAN trusts the connec- tion will be pleasant and profitable to both. It is to be regretted that time and space preclude the mention of many other 10 CHH MICHIGAN TRADESMAN special writers whose contributions have | appeared with less regularity than those above referred to. The hearty thanks of THE TRADESMAN are hereby tendered to all who have as- sisted, in any way, in bringing the publi- eation to its present high and it is to be hoped that all will strive equally the past during the years which are to standard, as hard to eclipse the record of come. Homes of the Paper. THE TRADESMAN’S first home was a little room on the third floor of the Eagle building, at 49 Lyon street. The space was as limited as the resources of the business, but in than a year the cramped quarters were increased by the addition of an adjoining room, which be- came the mechanical department, when the original office was used as an edito- rial room and received accessions in the shape.of carpet, desks, telephone, etc. As the two additional rooms were taken, giving less business of the office increased, the firm the use of an entire floor, with the exception of one small room. In 1888 the business had grown to such tious that a change of location perative and in November of that year the three-story and basement building at 100 Louis street was propor- was im- leased for a term of This lease has been renewed for another five of which time THE TRADESMAN confidently be five years. years, at the end expects to 10used in a building of its own. Predecessors and Competitors. Various attempts had made to establish trade journals in Grand Rapids prior to the inauguration of THE TRADEs- MAN. J. D. Dillenback, sponsible for three or four abortive ven- tures in to establish the Grand Rapids Advertiser in 1869. and enjoyed a fair degree of patronage, been who was the newspaper line, undertook lt was a likely looking quarto, but lived only one year. In 1878 Mr. | Dillenback and a gentleman named Beagle established the Grand Rapids Price Current. and contained siderable news of It was published weekly market reports and con- a commercial charac- ter, but the publishers were hampered by lack of capital and the paper suspended after a career of three or four months. Since THe TRADESMAN was lished, several unsuccessful attempts have been made tocreate a competitor in the field, the venture which has seen the light of day was the Business Reporter, which was started in 1887 by the late W. A. Innes and E. A. Antisdel. It demise was hardly noticed. In 1884 A. S. White began the publica- tion of the Business Reporter at East Saginaw, estab- same but only lived two months and its with a view to that field. It lived nine weeks and sus- pended without notice to its patrons. Shortly after the establishment of THE TRADESMAN Richard Wilby, a merchan- dise broker, began the publication of the Detroit It waged a bitter warfare against THe TRADESMAN and continually sneered at the pretensions of Grand Rapids as ajubbing market. The publication subsequently passed into the hands of John. H. Brownell, a peaceful death soon afterward. In 1886 Mr. Brownell established Detroit Grocer Butcher, a afterwards exchanged for that of Herald of Commerce, which is now edited by L. Commercial. dying the and pame re- | | paper was |} ness dividing the} patronage accorded THE TRADESMAN in ‘the office has S. Rogers. For some reason Tue TRADESMAN and the Grand Rapids market, but all attacks have been ig- nored, both by this paper and the market from which it emanates. Graduates from the Office. As a college is proud of its graduates, | the | so THE TRADESMAN of young men and women who have gone out from its rooftree into other fields of usefulness, cherishing pleasant memo- ries of the time they spentin the com- panionship of the paper. W. A. Stowe was identified with the business from its inception, and occu- pied the various positions of compositor, foreman, bookkeeper and_ assistant manager, retiring in July, 1892, to em- is proud bark in the wholesale paper business on | his own account, in which enterprise he is meeting with deserved success. Jas. Irwin Marshall, who was the first regular compositor on the paper, is now on the road for che Garden City Sand Co., of Chicago. Harry M. Royal came to THE TRADEs- MAN when it was about six months old, being employed first as compositor. rapidly rose to the position of foreman, and, after five years’ faithful service, resigned to establish the Shelby Herald, whieh he has conducted with signal ability and success. comfortable position, financially, and is on the broad highway to political prefer- ment. Rufus A. Freeman, several pressman, is now one of the proprietors of a press repair shop in New York City, which is in receipt of a lucrative patron- age. who office years in Miss Emma L. Parsons, who filled the} (Our Specialty !| position of bookkeeper several and left a record of faithfulness years is Prof. John L. handsome residence of their troit. Miss who held Sila E. Hibbard, Miss Edith lar position until alienated from the of- | fice by the claims of matrimony, is how | D. C. Scribner and pre- | | sides over a happy home on State street. | known as Mrs. Last, but by no means least, is Mrs. | E. A. Stowe, who was present when the the busi- for several years capacities of sub- scription clerk, proof reader and amanu- ensis. Her hand has not yet lost its cun- ning and the cares and duties of mater- nity have not entirely weaned her from the work of which she was so many years part and parcel. born and gave painstaking attention in the various Personel of the Office Force. For the sake of having a record of all who are actively connected with paper on this anniversary, a census of been taken, with the fol- lowing results: Editor and Manager—E. A. Stowe. Assistant Editor—Daniel Abbott. Stenographer—Frane Smith. 300k-keeper— Lizzie E. Rowley. Subscription Solicitor—M. J. Wrisley. Printing Department—B. H. Howig, superintendent; Judd Phillips, Henry Patterson, Martin Schram, Wm. J. Griffin, Alvin Talbott, Jos. Dietz, Alex. Smith, John DeBoe, Geo. Fox. Engraving Deparitment—W. N. Fuller, superintendent; Cora J. Cady, Alfred Kuenzel, Otto Miller. Binding Department — Frank Bliss, superintendent: Nettie Stuck, Millie Rice, Dee Mills, Earl Smith. it has been the policy of this journal to antagonize | He} He is a representa- | tive citizen of Oceana county, being in a} served the} the cavacity of | which | worthy of emulation, is married to} Snyder and resides in a} own in De- | at clerical position until compelled to re- | linquish it by rheumatism, keeps house | for her widowed father on the West Side. | Freeman, who held a simi- | Independence Wood Split Pulley THE LIGHTEST! THE STRONGEST! THE BEST! HESTER MACHINERY 00., 45 So. Division St.. GRAND RAPIDS. | ARE THE TIMES HARD? THEN MAKE THEM EASY BY ADOPTING THE COU PON BOOK SYSTEM FUR NISHED BY THE TRADESMAN COMPANY, PECKHAM’S CROUP REMEDY GRAND RAPIDS. CROU is the Chil ren’s Medicine for Colds, Coughs. Whooping-Cough, Croup, Pneumonia, Hoarseness, the Cough of Measles, and kindred complaints of Childhood. Try Peckham’s Croup Remedy for the children and be convinced of its merits. Get a bottle to- day, you may need it tonight! Once used al- ways used. Pleasant, WHOOPING COUGH Sarge, CERTAIN! “My customers are well pleased with that in- | valuable medicine—Peckham’s Croup Remedy. | lrecommend it above all others for children.” | H. Z. CanPENTER, Druggist, Parksville, Mo. “‘Peckham’s Croup Remedy gives the best sat- isfaction. Whenever a person buys a bottle I will guarantee that customer will come again for more, and recommend it to others.” C,H. Puiuuips, Drugyist, Girard, Kansas. ee } CHILDREN'S SHOES HIRTH, KRAUSE & 60, 12 & 14 Lyon Street, GRAND KAPIDS, MICH. (Quick Sellers. WHAT? the | ‘THE NEW FALL Manufactured by | SNEDICOR & HATHAWAY, DETROIT, MICH, All the Novelties in Lasts and Patterns. _———_0———_——_ | State Agents Woonsocket and Lyco- ming Rubber Co. 0 Dealers wishing to see the line address F. A. Cadwell, 41 Lawn Court, Grand | Rapids, Mich. LINE} Menthol Inhaler CURES Catarrh, Hay Fever, Headache, Neuralgia, Colds Sore Threat. The first inhalations stop sneezing, snuffing coughing and headache. This relief is worth the priee of an Inhaler. Continued use will | complete the cure. Prevents and cures Sea Sickness On cars or boat. The cool exhilerating sensation follow- | ing its use is a luxury to travelers. Convenient | | | } | | i to carry in the pocket; no liquid to drop or spill; lasts a year, and costs 50c at druggists. Regis- tered mail 60c, from HR. D. CUSHMAN, Manufacturer, Three Rivers, Mich. (= Guaranteed satisfactory. H) Wholesale Boots 2 SN088, 5 and 7 Pearl St., AND GRAND RAPIDS, Agen's for Wales-Geodyear Rubber Co. Orders by mail giveu prompt attention S. A. MORMAN, Wholesale Petoskey, Marblehead and Ohio LIME, Akron, Buffalo and Louisville CEMENTS, Stucco and Hair, Sewer Pipe, Fire Brick and Clay. WRITE FOR PRICES. 10 LYON ST, GRAND RAPIDS. FOURTH NATIONAL BANK Grand Rapids, Mich. D. A. BLopeert, President. Gro. W. Gay. Vice-President. Wm. H. ANDERSON, Cashier. Jno A. SEymour, Ass’t Cashier Capital, $800,000. DIRECTORS. D. A. Blodgett. Geo. W. Gay. C. Bertsch. A. J. Bowne. Wm. H. Anderson. Wm. Sears. John Widdicomb. S. M. Lemon. G. K. Johnson. A. D. Rathbone N. A. Fletcher. F. H. WHITE, Manufacturers’ agent and jobber of PAPER AND WOODENWARE, 125 Court St., Grand Rapids, Mich. PECK’S Pay the best profit. HEADACHE POWDERS Order from your jobber. THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. 11 The Panic of 1873. It is always interesting to compare events of similar character. Sometimes the presence of a general law is thereby discovered which, properly understood, enables the student to foresee the results of certain courses of action. Again, the dissimilarity of the causes producing like results enforces its own peculiar lesson. What the present panic may yet have in store for us no one is wise enough to predict, but it can be safely affirmed that it has not, up to the present time, been nearly so disastrous as the panic of 1873. That was a real cyclone, in comparison with which the present one would be! classed as a rather severe gale of wind. The panic of 1873 had been preceded by arage of speculation which began soon after the close of the war in 1865. This speculation took its rise in premature and excessive railway building. During the war the building of new railways came almost toa standstill. The capital and labor of the nation for four years were applied almost exclusively to military | and naval operations. When the armies were disbanded and the nation’s floating debt was funded, the field of enterprise in the West was entered upon with a feel- ing of high exuberance and enthusiasm. The first Pacific railway was opened for business in 1869. Great numbers of the enterprising and the capitalist classes were enabled, by this avenue, to see something of the vast resources west of the Missouri River. The glimpses thus obtained were very attractive, and the policy which then prevaiied at Washing- ton of giving away the public lands to people who would agree to _ build railways through them stimulated in the highest degree this speculative zest. At the beginning of 1869 there were 170,208,000 acres of land available as the - basis for railroad bond issues. This was, for the most part, good agricultural land. The world had never seen sucha chance to make money. Capitalists rushed in from Europe as well as from America to get some of the profits of this dazzling Golcomia. Railway building took an unexampled start. From 1859 to 1869 the annual increment of new mileage was under 2,000 miles per year. In 1869 it rose to 4,953 miles, in 1870 to 5,690 miles, and in 1871 to 7,670 miles. In 1872 there was aslight decrease from the mileage of the previtus year, there being 6,167 miles of new railway com- pleted. Here were nearly 25,000 miles of new railway constructed in four years’ time. It was a necessary adjunct to this feat that there should be a great speculation in iron and also in lands and town lots. Mills and furnaces multiplied on every hand, and as these could not possibly supply the demand for rails, cars and locomotives, there was an enormous im- portation, also. The speculation so ram- pant in iron and in town lots extended, of course, to other things, so that the period (1869 to 1873) became one of the most remarkable ‘‘booms’’ that this or any other country ever saw. “The appearance of abounding prosper- ity which distinguished this period was darkened on the17th of September, 1875, by the failure of the New York and Os- wego Midland Railway. There was a tumble in stocks, and this became a panic on the following day, when the banking house of Jay Cooke & Co. failed. The decline in the stock market, when this event became known, ranged from 1 to 10 percent. On the next day nineteen other banking and brokerage houses in New York, and eight in Philadelphia, failed. On the next day (the 20th) the Union Trust Company closed its doors, with liabilities of $6,000,000. This event took away what little reason was left in the Street. Western Union Telegraph shares fell thirty-five points and New York Central eleven points, although the latter had the powerful support of Com- modore Vanderbilt. The Bank of the Commonwealth and the National Trust Company closed their doors, the Canada Southern Railroad failed, and the Stock Exchange closed its doors and did not re- open them for ten days. At this juneture an appeal was made to the Treasury for assistance, and Sec- retary Boutwell, after consultation with | President Grant, decided to pay out a | large sumin greenbacks that had been | retired under a previous law of Congress, | but not cancelled. It was decided to con- sider this a reserve, and to use it in the | purchase of Government bonds. Twen- | ty-four millions was thus disbursed with | great rapidity, but without producing | any good effect. The bonds so bought | belonged mostly to savings banks, and | these banks locked up the greenbacks | which they received, and held them in} |anticipation of a run on_ themselves, | which did not take place. lany, of this money found its way into | commercial circles. On the 23d there was a general bank | Suspension throughout the country, ex- |cept at Chicago. In the latter city five | banks failed. In New York, Philadel- |phia, Baltimore, Cincinnati, and | Louis the clearing houses adopted the pooling plan of loan certificates, and the had clearing houses, and with very good effect, because it allayed public excite- ment and prevented runs which other- | wise would have taken place every where, asin the panic of 1857. The banks re- fused to pay currency, except on small checks or in cases where it was needed to pay wages. All other checks were certified as ‘‘good through the clearing house.’’ of this panie that currency bore a pre- mium over certified bank cheeks. On the 26th of September it was from 3 to5 per cent. This was the highest rate of premium. The total amount of clearing house certificates in New York at any one time was $22,000,000,. the premium on currency over certified checks fell to 1 per cent., then to 14, then to 14, then to 14, and finally, on the 31st of the same month, it disappeared alto- gether. The last clearing house certifi- cates were redeemed on the Ist of Novem- ber, at which time complete resumption on the part of the banks took place. The panic proper ended at this point, but the consequences of it. in commer- cial circles, lasted till 1879. The mer- eantile failures in the three years follow- ing the panic reached $650,000,000, and the railway defaults $563,000,000, plus $226,000,000 such defaults that had oc- gan. ei renee Some of the Causes of Failure. Purchasing too large quantities goods on limited capital. Extending large lines of credit on long time. Lack of good judgment in the purchases. Competing on prices below a safe mar- gin of profit. of assorting Want of sufficient capital to sustain the business. Extravagant methods of conducting business. A disregard for the interest of the pub- lic. Spending too much money for personal expenses. Not sufficient nerve to cope with diffi- culties. A lack of business sagacity, or com- mercial tact. Depreciation of values due to goods being carried long in stock. A mistake in the location and class of trade. Undue anxiety to transact a large busi- ness for ‘‘love.’’ Dependence upon one class of custom- ers for support. ——_ >_< ‘Witty, Wise and Timely.’’ The Kalamazoo Guide republishes a lows: teresting article on GAN TRADESMAN. read it. It ought to be published in every newspaper in the country. It may not fully explain the ‘‘true inwardness’’ of the present financial situation, but it light on the subject. and timely. $< Use Tradesman Coupon Books. Very little, if | au. | example was followed by all cities which | It was one of the phenomena | On October 2d | eurred before the September panic be- | recent contribution from the pen of Mr. | Owen, commending it editorially as fol- | We print elsewhere in full a very in- | ‘“‘Bubble-Blowing,” | written by E. A. Owen for THe Micui- | Everybody ought to} cannot be denied that it throws a flood of | It is witty, wise | MOSELEY B JOBBERS OF . ROS., Seeds Beans, Fruits and Produce. PEACHES furnished daily at market value. If you have any BEANS, APPLES, POTATOES or ONIONS to sell, state how many and will try and trade with you. 26, 28, 30 and 32 Ottawa Street. | Gtamp before a blast. | Fragments after a blast STRONGEST and SAFEST EXPLOSIVI Renown to the Arts. POWDER, FUSE, CAPS. | aS Electric Mining Goods. EE FOUVULT=ES, AKD ALL TOOLS FOR STUMP BLASTING, THE GREAT STUMP AND ROCK ANNIHILATOR, ost ® FOR SALE BY THE HERCULES POWDER COMPANY, 40 Prospect Street, Cleveland, Ohie, ae bis . Western Michigan. Write for Prices. Oo. i oy BLD P30. L = = &, THE ABOVE BRANDS, ‘Royal Patent, Crescent, White Kose, Are sold with our personal guarantee. If vou are not now handling any of our brands, we solicit a trial order, confident that the ex | cellent quality of our goods and the satisfaction of your customers will impe! you to become a | regular customer. : ce ae re ry T wr cy ‘ | Correspondence solicited. VOIGT MILLING CO. 12 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. BUSINESS IN DULL TIMES. What Merchants May DoToImprove It. N. C. Fowler in Montreal Gazette. In presenting this article on general publicity and business development, it is best for me to formally state that I have no interest in this paper, or in any other paper, and that I am neither directly nor indirectly connected with any medium of advertising space. | amsimply attempt- ing to tell you of the truth of successful publicity, as | see it, and as 1 know it is seen by the best business men of the country. Five parts of allesed know so, four parts of guess so, one part of something, and you have the composition of business depression. There is reason for everything, but migbty little of anything is founded on, reason. Half the people are sheep, and half the rest are lambs. Ten per cent. of the folks in every community do the thinking for 90 per eent. The reason in most people is what they think is reason, without thinking much about it, any way. He whois sick would not be half so sick if he didn’t think he is twice as sick as he is. Confidence is success. Lack of confidence is failure. Faith in business is business. What you think is so is practically | nearer so than that which is really so. He who thinks he is successful gener- ally is successful. In every ailment, physical, mental, or of business depression, something is gen- erally the matter, but imagination mag- | nifies that matter to hundreds of diam- eters. When there is slight excuse for busi- ness depression, and money becomes | tight, because each individual makes it | tight by locking up everything he has, demanding payment from debtors, and refusing to pay creditors, there is reason for depression, but there is no reason for this reason. In nine cases out of ten, business owes its depression to the depressed thoughts of depressed men who imagine they are depressed because they think they are depressed. How long would a steamboat cap- tain hold his job who banked his fires | and slowed down during astorm? The| successful navigator crowds on steam, | not an unsafe amount, but enough to} keep his vessel moving as rapidly in} storm asin calm, and sometimes more | rapidly. There is equilibrium in motion. Equilibrium is safety. Most business men, as soon as they | find business the cause, up intoa is dull, refuse to look for | and simply work themselves | frenzy of depression, cut ex- | penses in every way, talk times, | show hard times in their faces, give a! hard-times appearance to the store, and | get exactly what they expect—no trade. | The progressive merchant arranges his counters more attractively, piles his | goods higher than usual, decorates his windows, burns more gas, brushes up everything, put a new coat of paint on the outside, looks animated, diffuses his enthusiasm into every clerk, advertises | more extensively, and gets the bulk of | the business. There are selling seasons, and there } always will be, but people wear out | clothes and shoes as. much in dull times |} as in. flush, and the dull-times stomach | will Lave its accustomed food any way. There are few men who punish their } stomachs for the sins of theirbusiness. | Peopie eat about the same, and all the} time. There might be a slight economy | in their eating, but still they eat. | Men may not buy as muen furniture} in dull times, nor a good many other| things which they can wait for, but they buy necessities and perishable luxuries, for their stomachs must be filled and their bodies must be clotbed. The majority of men in dull times feel the want of those things which they think they cannot have more keenly than during the season when they can afford to have what they want; therefore they hard see a great many things they think they | build up trade for keeps; want because they think they can’t have | them. In hard times they select many new articles, to be purchased when times change, and the progressive man who presents his goods prominently before the public when they think they can’t afiord to have them, is the man who will sell the bulk of these things when times become better; and times always do be- come better. The leading magazines are filled with advertisements. Their difference in quantity is imperceptible, whether the times be flush or bad. The local dailies and the local week- lies contain almost as much advertising in dull times asin flush, because the old fogies pull out, and the progressive men increase their space. The statement I make, that dull times offer an unusually good opportunity for general local trade-pushing and advertis- ing, I back with the experience of many years, and the positive knowledge of hundreds, if not of thousands, of adver- tisers who never think of cutting pub- licity expenses during dull times, and who advertise then, first, because it al- ways pays to advertise; second, because they pull trade away from the drones who are afraid to advertise, and thereby third, because people make up their minds to buy when | good times come, and will buy of the man who makes the best hard-time an- nouncements. There isno objection whatever to ad- vertising the hard times, provided you make the advertisement so bright and forcible that people will believe that the times are hard everywhere except at your store. Trades Union Folly. Work on the new wing of the beautiful Mutual Life Insurance building, in New York City, has ceased. The building, which is to be fourteen stories high, has been carried up ten stories, and the elec- tric wiring is going oninit. So far the wire men have cut holes for themselves, eight men being constantly employed in the building for that purpose. It seems, however, that some bricklayers, who were out of work, saw them, or heard of them, and appealed to their union to get the wire men out and themselves put in. A deputation of bricklayers accordingly waited upon the superintendent of the building and demanded that the work of cutting holes in the walls should be given to them. They informed the superintend- ent that if this modest request was not complied with, all the bricklayers in the building would strike. While the super- intendent was considering the matter, the walking delegate of the Electric Wire Men’s Union appeared on the scene, and gave notice that if bricklayers were employed to do the cutting, all the wire men in the building would strike. As the building could not go on without both kinds of workmen, the superin- tendent concluded to do nothing, but let the two unions settle the dispute for themselves; and the bricklayers in the building, forty-eight in number, accord- ingly dropped their tools and departed. >> <> — Posters for Shayecetn. A correspondent of the New York Her- ald suggests that a large number of bright-colored posters, giving warning of the operations of green goods sharks, should be prepared by the proper author- ities and sent out to the rural neighbor- hoods for the benefit of the ‘‘hayseeds.’’ These people, he says, do not read the papers, and consequently miss the warn- ings therein published, but a flaming poster would catch their eyes every time. This suggestion would be very pertinent but for the fact, evident in all the cases reported, that the victims of the swind- lers are not of the bucolic simplicity which it supposes. Most of them are would-be scoundrels, who imagine that they are shrewd enough to beat the sharpers at their own game. The post- ers would simply serve to advertise the business and increase the crop of fleeced rascals. The President of the United States of America, GREETING: To HENRY KBROCH, your clerks, attorneys, salesm em and workmen, ager 3, and all claiming or holding through or under you, Wh eTeas., it has been represented to us in our Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Jersey, m the Thi exhibited sill said t } n the part of the ENOCH MORGAN’S of Complaint in our said Circuit HENRY KOCH, Defendant, Court of the United to be SONS COMPANY, that District matters therein Complainant, States for the relieved touching the ENOCH MORGAN’S SONS COMPANY, Complainant, is entitled to the exclusive use of the designation "SAPOLIO” as a trade-mark for scouring soap, iow, Cherefore, we do strictly command and perpetually enjoin you, the said HENRY KOCH, your clerks, attorneys, agents, salesmen and workmen, and all claiming or holding through or under you. under the pains and penalties which may fall upon you and each of you in case of disobedience, that you do absolutely desist and refrain from in any manner unlawfully using the word ‘“‘SAPOLIO,” or any word or words substantially similar thereto in sound or appearance, in connection with the manufacture or sale of any scouring soap not made or produced by or for the Complainant, and from directly, or indirectly By word of mouth or otherwise, selling or delivering as “SAPOLIO,” or when “SAPOLIO” that which is not Complainant's s ialse or misleading manner. at itness, [seal] ROWLAND COX Complainant 4 is asked for, aid manufacture, and from in any way using the word ‘‘SAPOLIO” in any honorable MELVILLE W. FULLER, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the States of America, at the City Prentor L Sal District of New ers this 16th day of December, the year of our Lord, one thousand, ndred and ninety-two, [SIGNED] » D, OLIPRANT, Clerk. THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. 13 A DECADE’S PROGRESS. Material Advance of the Local Market for Ten Years Past. When THE TRADESMAN was estab- lished, ten years ago, it was the custom of some large merchandise buyers who visited this market for goods to request that their names be withheld from publi- cation, as they did not wish it generally known that they bought goods in the Grand Rapids market. To-day the same men, in visiting the city on purchasing expeditions, not in- frequently call on Tor TRADESMAN, but instead of asking that the visits be kept secret, itis not unusual for them to re- mark, ‘‘Don’t forget to state that I have been in town, buying goods.” No remark more fully illustrates the progress made by this market during the past ten years than this, as it shows con- clusively that it is no longer necessary or desirable fora man to excuse himself for having purchased goods in this mar- ket. This result has been’ brought about by aggressive and persistent effort on the part of the wholesale trade, which has spared no pains or expense to prove to the retail dealers naturally tributary to the Grand Rapids market that Grand Rapids is entitled to their patronage and that Grand Rapids proposes to secure it if right prices, prompt shipments and courteons treatment are essential factors in the trade. How well the wholesale trade of this market covers the field to which it is legitimately entitled, and the rapid strides it has taken in the past decade, are thus described by a leading representative of each branch of busi- ness: Ten Years of Manufacturing. Grand Rapids has many business enter- prises of which the public take little ob- servation; yet they have contributed in no small degree to the development of our city. THE TRADESMAN is one of these institu- tions, and its career illustrates the in- domitable energy which has given Grand Rapids its present position. Our natural advantages are and always have been lim- ited, but of men with energy and untiring industry we have had many—men with ‘“‘days’ works” in them—ready to do their work, day after day, year after year, if need be, until success was achieved. This is Tok TRADESMAN’s record, and to-day it stands at the head of commer- cial papers in Michigan—perhaps the whole Northwest; yet the general public hardly know that an enterprise of such importance had its birth and home in the Valley City. It is fitting that it should celebrate its tenth anniversary, a decade of which it and its publishers can well be proud. When speaking, a day or two ago, of this phenomenal success, the writer re- marked that Grand Rapids was peculiar in one feature—that all or nearly all of its successful enterprises are the efforts of men who, from their youth, have been identified with our city. These concerns, like Tak TRADESMAN, were weak when launched upon the world, but here they grew and to-day we have our fair city as the result. During the life of Tok TRADESMAN— this decade from 1883 to 1893—seventy- six new manufacturing establishments, now in successful operation, were started in our city by Grand Rapids men. There may be many more; the writer has counted up seventy-six due to its own citizens. We would not disparage the benefits from institutions brought into our city, but wish to commend the de- velopment so relatively large from our own efforts. We will call these seventy-six Home Institutions. Some are of magnificent proportions and represent varied indus- tries; five employ over 1,000 workmen; none are furniture manufactories, yet many have sprung into existence in re- sponse to demands created by our great furniture interests, as the manufacture of carving tools and machinery, furni- ture easters, wood carvings and mould- ings, which are shipped wherever furni- ture is manufactured; exhaust pipes and machinery, devices invented here and now indispensable in the outfit of wood- working factories; wood engraving and electrotyping in the production of cata- logues, whichin artistic excellence are not excelled anywhere. Furniture man- ufacturers in other cities would think themselves excluded from the markets if they could not procure their photographs and_ beautifully _ illus- trated catalogues from Grand Rapids establishments. The writer recalls the first illustrated trade catalogue issued from Grand Rapids; the visits to New York required; the delays and expense incurred. A copy is now before him and it appears very crude when compared with the editions de luxe now supplied the trade from our publishing houses; yet this first little catalogue is but little more than ten years old. The writer has not referred to the re- markable development of our furniture manufacturing. That we all recognize, but these contributory establishments are not so well known. How many of our people realize that we have the larg- est fly-paper manufactory in the world; an institution as unique as its factory premises are handsome; a Grand Rapids enterprise from the invention of its in- genious machinery to the present suc- cess? Many of these establishments are ex- tensive and complete in all their appoint- ments; others, to-day, may be small, but the decade now before us may see them step into prominence, taking and making their share of the reputation so dear to the hearts of all Grand Rapids people. Other examples of the growth the past decade has seen may be given. Mention can be made of the high development which our architects and factories have accomplished in furnishing the complete interior hardwood finish for modern houses. Several factories make a spe- ciality of this and ship their product to nearly every state in the Union. This branch of manufacturing was unknown ten years ago, but now affords employ- ment to many workmen. Another feature of the decade is the semi- annual exhibit now made in Grand Rapids by the furniture manufacturers of the United States. This has assumed such proportions that whole blocks are occupied for this purpose and this year expensive buildings are being erected for the exclusive use of furniture manu- facturers, who must exhibit their goods in this, the most important market in the country. The man who, ten years ago, would have suggested that Grand Rapids could erect eight or ten-storied buildings for this purpose would have been considered very optimistic indeed. Were space given, much more might be related of the manufacturing develop- ment of our city during the first decade of THk TRADESMAN’S existence; but this glance must suffice. Yet the writer cannot refrain from expressing the con- fident assurance that the next ten years will prove as honorable and prosperous to Tuk TRADESMAN and its founders as were the years of its youth. Vu. WIDDICOMB. Ten Years of Banking. To write a sketch of banking in Grand Rapids during the last ten years is but to show in figures a commercial develop- ment which has surely been steady and strong and an indication of very health- ful conditions. We look in vain over the records to find the history of any specu- lative institutions founded upon the sort of rock which crumbles in times of pres- sure. The steady enlargement of the deposits brought about not only by new industries but by the earnings of the working man, who placed them in the bank that they might safely earn him something, has been a feature which shows how truly the banks and the peo- ple have common interests in building up this busy city. In 1883 we notice but five banks in all, four National banks—the Old, City, Grand Rapids and Fourth — and the Grand Rapids Savings Bank. Most of these banks were then as strong and well managed as to-day and had an excellent business. The natural growth in the banking interests of the city since that time has been absorbed by the many new institutions which have come into exist- ence as their need became apparent. Five new banks have since opened their doors—the Kent County Savings Bank, in January, 1885; the Fifth Na- tional Bank, in April, 1886; the Michi- gan Trust Co., in July, 1889; the People’s Savings Bank, early in 1891, and the State Bank of Michigan, in July, 1892. Each of these institutions has found a field for business and, together, they have attracted much idle wealth which might through their industry find safe and profitable investment. As hereto- fore stated, all of the banks are closely allied with the other industries of the city. The directors are men largely in- (JUR VALLEY GITY “Has been completely reconstruc ted this s summer with a full line of the latest and best flour mill machinery known, and it will! MIL | own convenience, and see what can be done in a modern flour mill. Our plan has been, and ever will be, to give the people in ‘ best grades of wheat, milled by the most approved methods, will produce. attest. THE FAMOUS iy WHITE PLOUR Will now be Finer than ever. To those who desire a Straraut grade of flour we guarantee our ‘GOLD MEDAL” or ‘HARVEST QUEEN” to give perfect satisfaction. position to offer the very best grades of spring and winter wheat flour. Our “‘street car feed” has a wide reput»tion and is absolutely pure corn and oats scoured and cracked. a trial order, to compare quality as well as price, and we are confident you will be pleased to have VALLEY CITY MILLING CO., GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN, past favors, Very truly yours, When you need flour, feed or millstuffs get our prices before buying elsewhere your name added to a long list of regular customers to whom we hereby extend thanks fo. many afford us great pleasure to have you Call, at your ‘LILY WHITE” and “SNOW FLAKE” flour the very best possible productions that a careful combination of the How well we have succeeded the wide reputation and steadily increasing demand for these > brands OUR ROLLER ( CHAMPION For a Fancy Paient has no Equal. With three well equipped full roller mills we are ina Gi.eus a 14 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. terested in the city’s progress, hence the banking policy is ome of liberality and encouragement to all legitimate business. Some comparison might not be out of place showing the figures of October 1883 and July 1893. If this comparison were made with the fall of 1892, a still larger increase could be shown, the unusual conditions of the present year having temporarily decreased legitimate de- posits, which, without doubt, will again be made as confidence returns. LOANS AND DISCOUNTS, i le . $5,835,000 ee... Lon 8,083,000 CASH. ee... ee etc eee eee as 1,201,000 —a ee 2,068,000 DEPOSITS. Se. LL ll hUL6Aee ee oe 7 961,C00 CAPITAL STOCK. ee ee le on eee lee 1,900,000 ae ee 2,900,000 SURPLUS AND UNDIVIDED PROFITS. eee 568,000 i ee eee 714,000 STOCKS, BONDS AND MORTGAGES. se. cL... . 4 : None. ee... - ee 1,305,000 In the figures those of the Grand Rap- ids Savings Bank of 1883 are not in- cluded, because of the writer’s inability to get them; but the result is practically as skown. It is only fair to add to our estimates of financial strength in these days the sums invested by all classes of people in the various building and loan tions. Five hundred thousand dollars would not be too large a sum to add to our deposits from this source. Our sketch may then be brief. This year is not one when bankers care to present long articles showing the pleas- ures or profits of banking. Grand Rap- ids may well be proud, however, of the institutions which have,during a time of extreme and unusual depression, been able to faithfully and fully meet any and all obligations upon demand in the cur- rency of the United States of America, and do so without in any way injuring their ability to safely cuntinue to satis- factorily handle the large commercial in- terests which so largely depend upon the banks for financial support. CLiay H. Honuister. associa- The Dry Goods Trade. Outside of my own business, I am not prepared to contribute very much that would be of value tothe many readers of THE TRADESMAN. True, I keep my finger on the pulse of the dry goods trade of the city, but as to general tabu- lated computations of figures which go to make up statistics, I can throw but little light on the subject, outside of my own business. 1 will say, however, that the ten or more dry goods houses of the city are, apparently, sound and in flour- ishing condition. Indeed, 1 am satisfied that the dry goods houses of Grand Rapids are as sound, financially, and have withstood, and are withstanding, the depressing times as well as, if not better than, those of any other city in the United States, large or small. The growth of the dry goods trade of our city has been fully commensurate with the remarkable growth of the city. Those who have a distinct recollection of the city’s dry goods stores of ten years ago will have no difficulty in estimating at its true value, the phenomenal increase in wealth and refinement which the city has experienced during the past decade, if they will make a careful comparison between the stocks of that time and the great multiplicity of lines of fine and costly fabrics which are found in the various departments of our city dry goods emporiums to-day. Thedry goods houses which were established ten years ago are still in business and all show a healthy development. As to our own house, it is the oldest dry goods concern on Canal or Monroe streets. Ihave been engaged in the dry goods business in this city nearly forty years, having first entered it in 1854 in company with Amos Rathbun and David Burnett in the old Luce block. That was a long time ago and the average daily sales of $50 seemed a matter of far greater im- portance than the three-quarters of a million dollars per annum trade I enjoy to-day. When I entered the dry goods business in this city the carpet business was no- where. To-day, Grand Rapids is head- quarters for carpets, as it is for furniture —not that we manufacture them, of course, but asa distributing point. We are supplying railroads, hotels, theaters and elegant homes all over the country, from the Gulf of Mexico on the south to the Pacific Coast on the west. We also have an immense trade in Indiana and Ohio. We commenced to wholesale about twenty years ago, and this feature of our business has kept increasing until now we cover pretty much all of Western Michigan. Two other city dry goods houses also conduct a wholesale depart- ment, Voigt, Herpolsheimer & “Co. and P. Steketee & Sons. We keep three men on the road and employ about 125 hands in the house in the various departments. The dry goods houses of the city all en- joy good credit and are amply able to meet competition anywhere in the coun- try. As to the total annual dry goods trade of the city | would estimate it at fully $3,000,000. HENRY SPRING. The Shoe Trade. The shoe industry of Grand Rapids has kept pace with the growth of the city during the past ten years. The de- velopment is not confined to one branch of the trade—it is seen in the retail, wholesale and manufacturing interests alike. There are ten places where shoes are sold in the city to-day where there was only one ten years ago; and not only in number, but in the size and variety of the stocks carried, may be seen the same proportionate increase. Ten years ago there was but one wholesale establish- ment—to-day there are three; and not- withstanding the two additional ones, the annual business of the one in exist- ence ten years ago has increased fully 75 per cent. The wholesale shoe trade of the city is, probably, not less than $1,250,000 per year at the present time. The wholesale shoe trade of Grand Rap- ids has reached a point of development where itis abundantly able to meet all competition in supplying the States of Michigan, Ohio, Indiana and Wisconsin with footwear. The facilities for manu- facturing shoes have been greatly im- proved, and the manufactured product has increased 60 per cent. within ten years. A wonderful revolution has been brought about during the past ten years in the general manufacture of shoes, by tho aid of inventive genius and improved machinery. To-day the cheaper grades of shoes are made up in as good style as were the higher priced grades ten years ago; and not only so, but these same grades are about 20 per cent. cheaper than they were then. It is needless to say thatin this marvelous development of shoe manufacturing, Grand Rapids has kept abreast of the times. Ten years ago the retail shoe trade was con- fined to Canal and Monroe streets; now itis scattered all over the city. There are about 100 retail stores in the city where shoes are sold, and at a rough estimation I would place the total annual sales at $300,000. As an evidence of the healthy condition of the shoe trade of the city, it is only necessary to state that since the money stringency began to par- alyze business all over the country, squeezing the vitality out of so many business concerns, representing all kinds of business, there has not been one sin- gle shoe failure in Grand Rapids. L. J. RINDGE. The Hardware Business. The changes that ten years bring about in the hardware trade of Grand Rapids are many. To think them all up and put them on paper is not an easy task, for as one grows older it is harder to date back to the time when any par- ticular change came about. When one says, “One year ago such and such was the condition,’’ upon investigation he is apt to find it was three or even five years ago. However, we are safe in saying that the last ten years have seen the hard- ware jobbing trade of Grand Rapids so developed that the representatives of either of the jobbing houses no longer have prices of Detroit or Chicago thrown at them, as we are already recognized as competing with all markets, and find no difficulty in securing for Grand Rapids its full share of trade. Ten years ago but one house did a job- bing business. To-day there are two, with sales of not less than $1,500,000 in the aggregate. The greatest change has been in the steady decline in prices of nearly every- thing made of iron or steel, as well as the new articles that have come into general use. Wire nails ten years ago were not carried in stock. The iron cut nail was then used, sales running as high as 50,000 kegs a year. Then came the steel cut nail, which soon took the place of the iron, and then the wire nail began to show its head. At first the dealers were loath to take hold of them, and their first orders would be for ten kegs ata time. Nowthe iron cut nail is not made, the steel cut nail is not in de- mand, and 500 kegs would supply this market for one year, while it now takes 100,000 kegs of wire nails to handle the jobbing trade of Grand Rapids. When wire nails first came they were worth $5 to $6 per keg; now the price is less than $2. In all articles of hardware steel ina great many instances has taken the place of iron, and at much lower prices. To- day, owing to the lower prices of hard- ware, a merchant is obliged to do three times as much work to get the same net profit on his business as he reached ten years ago. Wages are higher, expenses are more, competition is greater, the per- centage of profit is lower; consequently, in the volume of business and in close attention to credits lies the success of the hardware merchant of to-day. Sipney F. STEVENS. The Confectionery Business. The candy business in the early days of Grand Rapids was of a very limited character. From the best information obtainable, the writer finds that a Mr. Bidwell and his sons were the pioneers in manufacturing this line of goods in this city, keeping a small retail store on Monroe street, and making a very limited variety of sweets to supply the young market. This was in about the year 1855. Following the Bidwells, and about 1860, E. K. Powers engaged in the same line on Monroe street, manufactur- ing sufficiently to supply the demand, including some small jobbing trade. This concern was later changed to Pow- ers & Waldron, who did quite an exten- sive trade, when F. B. Waldron sue- ceeded, and he closed out after a strug- gle of two or three years. In 1865 a small retail place at the foot of Monroe street, located where Miner’s hat store now stands, was opened by the Putnam brothers. This was a very modest affair comprising a stock of only a few dollars, but was increased from year to year until after the death of Joseph D. Put- nam, when the firm was changed to Put- nam & Brooks, and continued under this style until 1889, when the concern was incorporated under the laws of Michi- gan, and is now known as the Putnam Candy Co., Mr. Brooks at this time retir- ing and starting a new concern under the name of A. E. Brooks & Co. It is a well-known fact that the growth of this branch of manufacturing has kept pace with all other lines, and that the goods madein this city are recognized as equal in quality to those of any other American market, and find buyers in all the states comprising the middle, west- ern and southern part of our great coun- try, the aggregate sales of which amount to fully a half million dollars annually, giving employment to an extensive cap- ital and a large number of people. BEN. W. PuTNAM. The Fruit and Produce Trade. With reference to the progress made in this market in the produce and fruit business, would say that I am sorry I have not time to give you the statistics, but, as it comes to my mind at this writ- ing, will say that about fifteen years ago Moseley Bros. were handling about all of the peaches raised in Kent county, which were shipped out of town, and most of these peaches came from the town of Gaines. I think there were only one or two fruit farms in Grand Rapids township, north of here, at that time that were offering peaches on this market. At the present time the county north, all through the township of Grand Rap- ids and the adjoining townships, north, east, west and south, are furnishing this market with peaches. This fruit is brought to this city and placed on our market for sale from 3 to 5 o’clock in the morning and sold to the highest bidders. The daily receipts range from 200 to 10,000 bushels. The average during the ‘rush’? will probably range from 2,000 to 5,000 bushels. lt is now generally conceded that Michigan apples, peaches, potatoes, beans, etc., stand second to no other state in the Union. I have often noticed, in traveling in different states, some- times a long way from home, that in re- tail stores the merchant has his baskets and barrels of apples labeled ‘‘Michigan Apples,” as much as to say, ‘‘If people only knew the fruit was from Michigan, it is all right and will command outside prices.” (Sometimes the fruit never saw Michigan!) I speak of this to show the \Continued on Page 18.) “ »l | THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. 15 Wholesale Price Current. Advanced—Opium. Turpentine. Declined—Lard Oil. ACIDUM. ee. elec ese ‘ seas 3 . TINCTURES. 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Caryophyllus, {Pe- 35) 10@_ 12 Gere ooo 10] Anisum, (po. 20).. @ 15 con dae ae ay “n= ovum. soe Gearceen):. SE Bie fare 30 40 Acacia, 1st picked... @ 60 Carul, (po. a 10d 12 Gooemm ............... @ 40 “2d s-++ @ 41) Garaamon............. 1 60@1 25 | Cassia Fructus........ @ % “ 3d gen @ B® Corlandrum an 10@ 12 Comper. @ 10 sifted sorts.. @ Ala ioe COMNCOHI i... @ 40 Cannabis Sativa....... —_ . sie 6 PO...... ----- 60D Sl Gedonium.... ........ 75@1 09 | Chloroform ........... = 63 see) ee ee Oy... m2 | Chenopodiuan °......: 10@ 12 — 1 25 Cape, ( @ 12 Dipterix Odorate...... 2 25@2 50 Chioral Hyd Crat...... i 35@1 60 Socotri oy 8a). @ Sl Poontculum........... @ 15|Chondrus............. 2@ 2 Catecha, 1s, (48, 14 4s, @ 1 | Poenngreek, po.. 6Q §| Cinchonidine, P. & W 2 ea erm gamma 85a 0 Lint oon ii ge sf $2 com Uist, dis. per a ssafostida, (po. 35) .. ll Bensoinum.... stipes SO 55 | Ce isGanmian. a | Creamotum ............ @ 3 Campnors..........+.- 55@ 58 ae 6 7 Creta,, “Ob ~—........ @ &: = phorbium - ...... 35@- 10 Sinapis tn 11 @13 i a Se ce 4 " Gamboge, po. Nigra........ N@ 12 sane @ 8 Guaiacum, (po 35) ee ae Croce 40@ 50 Kino, (po 1 1 Frumenti, W., D. Co..2 00@2 50] Gudbear...............- @ 2% Mastic... .. «DLR R...2-1 %5@2 00 | Gupri Suiph 22222277. 5@ 6 Myrr (po. 45 : wees eens Pewtiag 10@ 12 Opi (po 3 85). Juniperis Co. 0. T 2 00| Ether Sulph........... 0@ 7% Shellac ........ “ tO oeeecs sed %5@3 50 mary, al annie @ ‘ bleached..... Saacharum N. E 1 75@2 00 eae @ 6 ‘Tragacants ......-.... 40@1 00] Spt. Vini Galli 1 75@6 Bat eo 70@ 5 HERBA—In ounce packages. ini Oporto . -1 25@2 00 — 12@ 15 aimee a te ee iti. @ Eupatorium................. 20 SPONGES. Gambier. pe 7 Seger i ak Light ec hy = Florida sheeps’ wool, sad a > aeaaecag 80 a paerines | Mentha = ctor = Nesssn Smneeps” wool ia : Glasmware dint by — ctrecccese cons Garr Cs ueecus 2 — .. .. .......... 30 . : Glue, rows... 052. 9B 15 Tanacetum, V.....cccccc. Soo ls ae... 5... 13Q 25 Oe 25] petra yellow sheeps’ Co 144%@ 2 MAGNESIA. carriage ............. 85 —— seeeccee ae = Calcined, Pat.......... 55@ 60 — ‘woo! Car- gs | Hydraag Chior Mite. @ 8 Carbonate, Pat........ 20@ a2 | ward fa a ea "5 “ ce Oe @ 80 ee oe’ Se oc | Sele Weel, tor alate a Ox Rubrum = @ 9% Carbonate, JenningS.. 35@ 36 oe ’ 1 40 “ Ammoniati.. @1 00 i I ek eee . mo on @ Absinthium. ......... 3 —_ 00 SYRUPS. a -- @ CO Amy fo ee beuiee ———- == a 1 Tol = Am ae, Amarae.... PRIOR ..... 20. cs. tt. Ot PN... re bees eee es Ipecac... 60 ane Resu 3 80@3 90 ceca — eret Iod...... 50 | Iodoform @4 70 rgamii . Auranti Cortes 56 | Lupulin... @2 Gajiputl Hue Arom........ 50 | Lycopodium 65@ 70 Caryophyili Similax Officinalls.... 60 meme. 8... NW@ 75 Cedar re . Cc 50 | Liquor Arsen et Hy Chenopodii . Beneee 6... . 50 rere 10G............ Cinnamonii 50 | Liquor Potass Arsinitis 10@ 12 Geta Mad 60 Magnesia, Sulph (bbl ene Os ee Get ete ll SE WOE cc, Peet ice. -...:..-:....., Oe) eee, & Mor eu . _ &W. 2N@2 45 2 N. ¥. @ . eee. 2 10@2 35 Moschus Canton...... @ 47” Myrintica, No 1 .. ... 65@ 70 Nnux — (po 20).. @ 10 Ce mome.............. 2@ 22 Pe} sin Saag, tt. & 8. D, 2 Picts Liq, N.C., % gal ie. @2 00 Picts Liq., — aoe @1 00 Janie ....... @ 8 Pil Hydrarg, (po. 80) . @ 0 Piper Nigra, (po. 22). @ 1 Piper Alba, (po g5 @ 3 ree Surgun........... e@ 7 rien Aoet 8.8... 14@ 15 Pulvis Ipecac et opli..1 10@1 20 Pyrethrum, boxes H arb. Ce.,dos..... @1 25 Pyrcuarum, py........ 2@ 30 Se ie 8@ 10 uinia, S. raw..... 29@ 34 German... 20@ 30 Rubia Tinctorum..... 2@ 14 Saccharum Lactispv. 20@ 22 Saree 1 75@1 80 —— Draconis..... 0@ 50 a ae a 12@ 14 Se eee 10@ 12 _ 5 ea @ 15 Seidlits Mixture...... @ 2/| Linseed, boiled.. 45 — ee @ 18 — Foot, winter Te @ 30|_ strain Od eons — Maceatoy, De on Spirits Turpentine... 34 39 Snuff “Scotch, De. Voes @ 35 PAINTS. bbl. Ib. Soda Boras, (po. 1 1). . tO 21) Hed Vonetian.......... 1% 2@8 Soda et Potass Tart... 27@ 30| Ochre, yellow — 1% 2@4 noes tare........... a i ee 1% Soda, BLCarb......... 5 | Putty, commercial. ..214 24@3 Mode Ae Sam 4 ee wrees 24% 24%@3 Soda, Sulphas......... @ 2 — e Amer- Spts, Ether Co ........ mt lean... 13@16 yrcia Dom..... @2 25 Vermilion, English.. 65@70 ‘’ Myreia Imp... .. @3 00} Green, Peninsular eeeee 70@75 ‘ visi Rect. bbl. sine Lead, a os exe epee noe ocd eee cemees 22 beds soeune¢ a ine Se gal., cash ten days. Whiting, white Span... @70 Strychnia Crystal..... 1 40@1 45 Whiting, Gilders’...... @%G Sulphur, Subl......... 24@ 3 | White, Paris American 70 ee. @ 2%| Whiting, Paris Eng. Termarinds 8@ 10| cliff .................. Terebenth Venice..... 28@ 30 | Pioneer Prepared Paintl 21 4 Theobromae .......... 45 @ 48 — a —, Naat 9 00@16 00} Paints............... 1 00@1 20 Zinci Sulph.. —.- a VARNISHES, No. 1Turp Coach.... OILS. Betis Ture... .... Bbl. Gal | Coach Body....... - 2 Qs Whale, winter........ 70 20 | No. 1 Turp Furn...... 1 00@1 10 a Gxtre........... vis] $0 | Eutra Turk Damar....1 55@1 60 ioe 7... 42 45| Japan Dryer, No. 4 Linseed, pureraw.... 42 45 Ped eeidece cau 70@75 HAAEL TINE & PERKINS DRUG CO. Importers and Jobbers of DRUGS CHEMICALS AND PATENT MEDICINES DEALERS IN Paints, Oils 2 Varnishes, SWISS WILLA PREPARED PAINTS. Fall Line of Staple Drug, We are Sole Preprietors of nists Sundries Weatherly’s Michigan Gatarrh Remedy, WHISKIES, BRANDIES, We Have 1n Stock and Offer a Full Line of GINS, WINES, RUMS. We sell Liquors for medicinal purposes only. We give our personal attention to mail orders and guarantees satisfaction. All orders shipped and invoiced the same day we receive them. HAZELTINE & PERKINS Send a trial order DaUG OO, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. GR THE MICHIGA below are given as representing average prices for average conditions of those who have poor credit. greatest possible use to dealers. N in such quantities as are usually purch It is impossible to give quotati purchase. Subscribers are earnestly requested to point out any errors or TRADESMAN. CERY PRICE CURREN?. The prices quoted in this list are for the trade only, going to press and are an accurate index of the local market. ased by retail dealers. ons suitable for all conditions of purchase, and those Cash buyers or those of strong credit usually buy closer than They are prepared just before omissions, as it is our aim to make this feature of the AXLE GREASE. Fruits. do gross Appies. oe... 55 6 00 | 3 lb. standard........- $5 Pater Ol.......... 7 CO | York State, gallons.... 3 00 Diemond............ 3 S30| Mamburen, ~ weeeer's...........- > se Apricots ee... So 7) Livecs....... ‘ 1% Parasoe .. .....-.. 55 6 00] Santa Cruz 1% BAKING POWDER. Lusk’s.......- 1% Acme. vores ............- 7 % Ib. cans, 3 doz...... 45 aw Blackberries. . wa eT ccc eee 85 Ae ‘ a “ ce 1 60 Cherries. ae 10 mee oc a oo 1 10Q1 20 ‘Arctic. Pitted Hamburgh ..... 1% 14 i cans 6 doz case...... 55 | White ... eo 1 50 % “ 4doz an Erie aes oe ' [i i bm “ 2doz . 200 Pre Plums and Green Se * iGo . 900 FAZER. Fosfon. Erle ..............-.... 1 10 5 oz. cans, 4 doz. incase... 80 vse a 1 70 cs oe « 26 iooseberries. d Star, 4 D cans... 49 | Common ............. 1 2 Re 6 4S cc | 75 i Peaches. “ 1 Ce. te a i 13 Telfer’s, % lb. cans, doz 45 | Maxwell ....... “ ib. * a 95 | Shepard’s 1 65 “ ‘Iib. “ ‘ .. 150] California 2 20 Our Leader, 44 ib cans 45 | Monitor 1 65 “ ib cans...... 7 | Oxford ae _ ‘ibcans..... . | i . " Pears. " *.. Price's. omestic. ‘i . wa per doz Riverside............. 2 10 Dimecans.. 95 Pineapples. 4-02 * 4 oy) Common... .....-....1 Gal 6-02 2 ¢@ | Johnson’s ee . 2 50 8-0z 2 Y areseg...... 2% 12-02 "3 99 | Booth’s sliced......... @25) 16-0z a a Les @2 7 2%-Ib 12 ninces. 4-1b 18 25 | Common . eee ee 1 5-1b 22 75 Raspberries. E 10-Ib 41 80 ME nas ves en 130 ee j eng Hamburg....... 1 50 ~ Erie, black i 2% BATH BRICK. Strawberries. 2 dozen in case. nee... . 1 2% a... ..-.... H 90 yurgh 1 2 Bristol ee i ae 1 20 Domestic.........---.--- 70 | Terrapin ... ca 1 10 BLUING. Gross “— Whortleberries. ‘al an leeberries ........ . oO Arctic, 4 - ovals.......--. : 69 a hie eke a 9 an} Corned beef Libby’s. 2 6 ag — - > zs | Roast beef Armour’e....... 1 70 ae oe Potted ham, _— . 1 40 og a. c C — &5 No. 5, c 1 . > oa r i. om SE 459 tongue, a us = : 4 cate lS lLlUc eS. gt Mexican Liquid, 4 oz...... ; = chicken, 4% Ib....... 95 BROOMS, — ” eans. oe . Hurl..........---. . 0G Hemburgh stringices. oe ' So a Trench style..... 22 No. 2Carpet..........-..... 22 a 2 25 5 “6 25D Ce a i sen aguas > x | uima, green eee -1 40 * —— ° 7 ' oece...........,... %5 ses Whisk ens Lewis Boston Baked........ 1 5 Oe or tists waked... 7 oF Werehouse............ Waste Pair Baked. is - - os aaa ES. oe Pienic Baked................1 00 ove, NO. seen ~ Corn. . we. Li ren... 1 40 : ‘* 15... tricenes © oO | cewinoeion Baden... 18 Rice Root Scrub,2 row.... 85} Puri co ae Rice Root Scrub, 3row.... 1 25) Honey Dew..............-.. 1 40 Paimetic, gcose..... -. 150] Morning Glory............. BUTTER PLATES i Soeeee ....... a 75 Oval—250 in crate. . _ Fem. EE 60 | Hamburgh marrofat.... 135 No. 2 70 | " early June : Bo. &.. 80 Champic 18 ~~ 100} petit : ? CANDLES. i ee ne Hotel, 40 Ib. boxes.... 0 ran ttl oe , Star, 40 o ceeeeees oe ee 30 Peamine ................. 10 | ‘ cee eee cs. Oe | Archer’s Farly Blossom jis CANNEP GOODS. | French a 2 15 Fish \ Mushrooms, Clame | French ......cccccsesecees 17Q2 Little Neck, 11b....... oa Pumpkin. ‘i + ° ob 1) | ETIC.---- ++. es eeneee ee 90 Mies iii | i Squash ine 225 Hubbard .......... “+ i 2 Cove O cc i Suecotash, Standard, Tb — 100 Hamburg.........--.- 1 40 “a -_ |. 1 85 le . = Lobster i | Honey pew...-..... 1 5¢ ae 2 5p | Erle ...... oe. oe eee 1 BB “ 9 ib : Br] Tomatoes. Picnic,1ib.... > on | Hamcock ................ . S........-.-... 2 oo oo Mackerel. | Kclipse. Standard, i ib ..1 25 | Hamburg se eseeeec eres i a... 2 jo | Gallom ._. ...-....... seas 75 Mustard, 2ib.......... ....225| CHOCOLATE, Tomato Sauce, 21b.........2 25} Baker's. Soused, 2 Ib......... 2 =| oe BWC... ...000.00- 23 Salmot.. | Premium... ......- sss 37 Columbia River, flat.... ...1 89 | Breakfast Cocos.......... 43 6 + a......... CHEESE, EE a ne | ae... 2 os ose @i1% “ Te le De ete ee aimnela @11h4 Rinuey's, Bats.........- wo i Lemawee........ .-.... @ii Sardines, ) Riverside ...... ...... 11% Aoperioan “s....,....... @ 58| Gold Medal........... @i1 a Been oven oo i +. | ren ee 6@ 7 Imported ‘48.............. 10@11 | Brick... es 11 ss Seow ee ee | eee... .. ..-- «2550+ 1 00 PE FB. ono en os noose @7 | Leiden. . eos ae 23 ee : 21 DE ook eee wens @10 Trout. Pineappie @5 Brock, & .....- oes 2 50 ' Roquesori Os Sp Saee.............. @22 Schweitzer, imported. @%4 ' domestic .... @i4 CATSUP. Blue Label Brand. Half pint, 25 bottles 2% Pint . ea 4 BO Quart 1 doz bottles 3 50 Triumph Brand. Hatt int, per dos.........- Pint > bouses........-..... on asR Quart, per doz ..... ...... CLOTHES PINS. 5 gross boxes........... 40@45 COCOA SHELLS, — Sot teeees...... ... @3 Less ——— . @3% Pound packages 6%Q7T COFFEE. Green. Rio. Fair a a ooe....... 20 Prime . a Oe 20 Peaberry ... ...... 22 Santos. Fair... Le i8 Good _ 20 s.r Peaberry .... 22 Mexican and Guatamala. ° ——........ 21 Good... a aes... oo Maracaibo, Prime .... ee 23 ee... 24 Java, oro... .....,. oe Private Growth.............27 Mandehling . . . a0 Mocha. Tettaton ......... 25 Ee Roasted. To ascertain cost of roasted coffee, add \%c. per Ib. for roast- ing and 15 per cent. for shrinx- age. Package. MecLaughlin’s XEXX.. 22 5 Bunola cee 2) 4 Lion, 60 or 100 Ib. case.... 22 95 Extract. falley Uity 4% gross.. % Felix C 1s Hummel’s, foil, gross...... 1 50 . tin _ 2 50 CHICORY. Belz os 5 Red 7 CLOTHES LINES. Cotton, 4 ft . per dos. 1 2 si 52 it ss i 4G zt Wah 1 46 . rf 175 ' 50 Fs. C 1 90 2 4 CONPYENSED MILK, 4 doz. in case. N.Y.Cond’ns’d Milk Co’s brands Gail Borden Eagle..... - parc 6 25 eee. 5. oe — Comsat. ................. 2 oe ae 42 “Tradesman. ’ 8 1, per hundred 2 -. . 2% $ 3, C . 380 8 5, 3 uF Bic 4 ii $20, 5 &® “Superior.”’ $ 1. per hundred 2 50 s * C Li oe . . i > ~ r 4 00 — ~ 5 00 aw, 9 00 8 1, per hundred. _, ai we. e.....-.....--.--.. 1 6 GUNPOWDER. 8 2, if . Brae ae...-.... .-...-.-... 1 50 Rifle—Dupont’s. 53. vs ey XX wood, white. —-... .... 3 50 85, 1 OO ee {oh Halt kegel 2 00 $10, - 6 0) No. 2, 6% Lt aioe Kegel. 115 $20. . 7 O Manilla, white. ioe. 30 Above prices on coupon bOOKS | gi, oo... eee ee) 100) 4 Tb Cams...........--.. LoS are subject to the followineig. | 2..0 8... | Choke Bore—Dupont’s. quantity discounts: Coin. Moet Lo Be 200 or over. ase. © por cont, | Mill No. 4.. ..... ... 1 i Bar bees... ........-- 2 ww soo “ I : Quarter kegs.. .... * Soda, Duchess........ 8% 1 i MINCE MEAT. Crystal Wafer........ 10 Jy, h Bloaters. EEE Long Island Wafers ti armouth...... wo eccceceses Oyster. Cod. S. Oyster XZ2...... 6 oor... 3% City Ovuter. XE. ...... 6 Whole, Grand Bank..... 5% Farina Oyster.......- 6 Boneless, bricks.. ... 6@38 CREAM TARTAR. Boneless, strips.. ....... 6@8 Strictly pure,.............. Bo Halibut. olfers Absolute.......... 33 | Smoked ...... Couey es 104%@l1 Grocers’ epee eens 15@245 Herring. DRIED FRUITS. : ae | 3 G08. CANO ...... 2... senses 2 75 Dowestic. Holland, white hoops — Co) 6 dos. case... ............ 5 50 Apples. ts oe 12 doz. case ...........- aoakt Uo Sundried, — = bbls. . Norwegian .......... MEASURES. ‘ quartered * 5 2 ihe... ‘ " a Evaporated, 50 1b. boxes 10% Round, ey by Ibs...... : . Tin, per aozen. Apricots. SD wit gation. |... ls... Oe ee Mina... lULC ll mL ‘) at eeo............... Dee Evaporated in boxes. .. Mackerel. ees... a. 7 Blackberries. No.1, 100]bs.......... .... 8 50] Pint...........-. 45 i hoe No. 1, 40 tbs eee 3 70| Half pint ............-.-. 4 Nectarines. Oe ee es 105} Wooden, for vinegar, per d OU MAME sacs Family, 90 Ibs.............. 6 0014 call = oe 25 tb, BOXOH.-. 25.0001. . 9 Te ie tee re ee eo : Eeert calion ......-..- 4% Peaches. Sardines Quart 3 75 Peeled, in boxes...... Russian, kegs..... c 65 PL “HE | 9 25 Cal.evap. “ ee , sad aha at iy quan ee ' ‘“ ‘“ in bags 19% Trout. MGLASSES, Pears No. 1, % bbls., 1001bs........ 6 25 Blackstrap. Cslifornia in bags 8 No. 1% bbl, 40 Ibs... _......2 u acxstrap. Pitted Cherries. eae. = Suger house......... ol Se . wee ce eens He. 1,5 Eus.-......... 70 ____ Cuba Baking. = OXOS ees aie Whitefish. Ordinary anne ee 16 i ' Famil ‘orto o. Wik Prunelles. No. 1 y Prime . 20 si ib, boxes an PAPER & WOODENWARE - willow el’ tt 8, Nc a ~ » Cassia, China in’ mete. ..... T lees ue a cia American Eagle Co.’s Brands. _ FRESH Fisa . a a , No.1 3 8 35 Batavia in bund....15 Por, ‘sani ie bose te 50 Myrtle ey. ead 40 | Whitefish @:0 St PAPER. 1% ‘ ‘s “« Nos7 2 *“* Safgon in sella ce Se OO eee #50 | Stork .. —. HQ ree @10 ron: tones es es ++ BA « so gplin “ Nol 3 33 r “ Cloves, Amboyna... ss SUGAR. German Lo Brook Trout ......... 29G35 Rockford ................ eee eT ag 4 = Zanzibar... ie The following prices repre- Frog a ‘3 | Black Bass. 12% ie ue eas se 2% i . ve “No.3 4 %5 Mace Batavia.. . ......-80 | sent the actual selling prices in | J@V8, 28 foil............... 32 | Halibut... - @ib | Ree vn Saat INDURATED WARE, Nutmegs, fancy... Bee eee 5 Grand Rapids, based on the act- | Banner Tobacco Co.’s Brands. Piscoea or Herring... @12% Dry Goods. ge ‘es ? Padis.... 315 Te ee 7 ual cost in New York, with 36 | Banner 16 ; a s Manta cl geen || Eebs, No. 13 50 “ ee 60 cents per 100 pounds added for SS haven cn a9 Fresh lobster, per Ib. 20 Jute M ani -. i G6 mba fe 12 00 ” ’ Pepper, Singapore, a. ...10 | freight. The same quotations Peep rc ” on meee _5 ae eis oe No. 1. a 4% Tubs, No. 3.. 10 50 whit -20 | willnot apply toany townwhere ue a % 2 oe @wW | a el |. iM ss na oe . the freight rate from New York Seotten’s Brands. Pree) @8 TWINES. POULTRY. ° Pure ean in Bulk, is mot SO conte, but the local | Warpeath.................... 15 Smoked Ww hite... Qs | Cotton, No. 1. 1 i) co Local dealers pay as follows: \ Ts 15 | quotations will, perhaps, afford | Honey Dew................- 30 | Red Snappers . 13 ae i | Cassia, Batavia.............18 | a better criterion of the market | Gold Block........... ..... 96 | Columbia River Salmon La icici ase ""711'39 | Fowl ie aes “ # . + | one Saigon. 25 | than toquote New York prices| # F Adams Tobacco Cos | “8° pret ee B25 | = 5 omy assorted i 7 7 i + a Seana oe. 2 ’ OY3TERS—Cabs. | No.5 ol , 5 keys Cloves, fro ni ey = pa 9 ah pal a ‘ee Brands. Fairhaven Counts... | No.6 “............ ute) DRaeks 2.1... Zanzibar...... ....18 | Powdered .......... veseeess 6 23 | Peerless...... see noeseter |, in onc. | Tut x "nagar om re Ginger, African a 16 ‘|Grannlated 5 oe ae Te a _—— ol | ubs, _ ee a = 1 L yi - — oo lbs. to 2 Ibs. le ee. 2 Extra Fine Granulated.... 5 98 i oa - “ mh | ye ‘ * a pie — a — 6 2 Globe Weenies Cc Wie Bean ae Anchors..... : | Pails, = 3. a fein: : 2 Live broilers less the an 1-1% Mace Batavia............... “% | XXXX Powdered...... ++. (@) 22) anerade. 0/0000), 4g | Seamdards..._--..-- Bulk No. 1, three = 1 60/5 a Big et sic re a Mustard, ae and Trieste, .22 Confee. Standard A.. .... 5 6! im : i / _OYSTERS— bulk. | _ *s 7 ‘pring hMickens...... 8 @10 . 9 Wine om Uta a Golunia & 5 54 Leidersdorf’s Brands. Extra Selects. ! | Bowls, 11 10 — boxes.... = Fowls..... 2 @e Natueon Wa 0. 5 N 2 Ce a Be Bee ae Beleews ......... 1... 2 00 | owis nC + we Spring turkeys. ie 10 @i2% Fussan thngraers, black 1718 No. — i. 5 2 Uncle Suan i... 2e@s2 | Standards .......... 1 35 | 13 erseeeee+ +++ 100] Spring Ducks......... 9 @10 . Y - . white. 2 ha. 7.. . 8 | Meg Clover............--.... 32 7 ‘“ Cayenne...... -- 80 | NO. 8..... 0.6.20 - 5 23 Spaulding & Merrick. on : . s se Absolute” in Packages, | Now 10. $17 | Tom and Jerry.......--.---. 25 csi ioscan Decorated reais VRE 0 99 48 is No. ee ’ 5 05 | Traveler Cavendish........ 38 The Grand Rapids Packing and Provision Co, Be 85 AMeiee 000. 84 155 No. eo ’ 498 eee POE ws 30 quotes as follows: | Burnt Almonds.. os ne 1 00 6 < Cinnamon. (0000000 Se eS 4 61| Plow Boy...... .-..----80@32 PORK IN BARRELS. | Wintergreen Berries. ee even... ‘eis... ...... 411 Corn Cake ia and tai 16 Mess LL . =a CARAMELS. ue " Ginger, Jamaica ..... 84 155 SYRUPS he 18 50 | i : wrapped, ; Ib, boxes....... Se —- See ee 84 155 ee OILS. Extra clear pig, short cut. a Nes in 3 i a 51 Mustard.. voess 84 155 : ae i bina On Go anoles | Maura clear Heavy oo a AE reese eens v1. 28 t Pepper on 4 66) Barrois................ i The Standard Of] Co. quotes y 09 | No.8, : «§ CCC ci Te | MAND 24 [as follows, in barrels, f-0. b. Gee Bae eee SAL ‘SODA. a Pure Cane. “i Grand Rapids: Cleae Hack! chart cut. oe BANANAS, | ii Soe 1% Bead “aaa dh a ee 25 ee _ Ww. aaa 8% | Standard clear, short cut, best... Mediurs a ia ni iv — 50 Granulated, boxes.......... ai. — Fresh and Su od es ore Cmeeee. 30| Headlight .. . 1% sAUsaGE—Fresh and Sm | Large Ny SEEDS yes ot . il | i SWEET GOODS” Naptha..... ee @ 64 | Pork Sausage............ ee ORANGES . ~- Bee oo, @12% Stov 73, Oc 9 Pee a el ae : ; tove Gasoline... @ 7% | Ham Sausage........-.......--- ------+------- 9 | California Riverside Seedlings....... Canary, Smyrna. ...... 2 ee ay : Cylinder _ 27 Gs OE eee _3 , | St Mie Hapa : ania ' oe : : a i‘ i pessoal 2a SS ee 9 | Bngine ..... .. 13 @2l_ | Frankfort Sausage | FTN 4 50 ardamon, Malapar. “sie ‘ Biack. 15 cold test @ 8% | Biood Sausage. . i j ee a Russian Deeeee- 4% | Graham Crackers..... 8% — | Bologna, s traight.. 6 uu LEMONS, eo eT TT TA | RORRe ay RETR C8 . 6 i : a Must r 2 i. . et ” HIDES PELTS and FURS | Bologna, thick...... 6 essina, — = an eo se ~ . Poppy = white ..... 9 VINEGAR. Mead cheese oo a anaes ee re ret sais : = ee 7 @8 | Porkins & Hess pay as fol- LARD eee Cultis bane | 30 Sear... .......... 8 @a lows: Kettle eee oe... 1044 OTHER ee cui fi $1 for barrel. HIDES Granger .....- ec 9% Figs, fancy layers, -_ > . @12 —— WET MUSTARD, ee! 202% Compound « eeeeeees a ee ee um 101 omen ¥ ’ moe Done... 6% | Bulk, porgal ....... ..... 30 aoa Cured. g 314 | 50 lb, Tins, we advance. extra i a mse oe st esseeene @1 ‘ , «cs... -... O86 | DOGr mug, 2dostncarse.. Ii 7 Dry cote icte 4@ 5 | 20 1b. pails, } ¥40 i Dates, Fard, 10 Ib. box eee @% Gloss, YEAST. Kips, green ...... con 2 @3 10 lb. u . Tb, os " et i 33 1-lb packages ............... 5g | Magic,.... ee --1 00 a @ 4 Sib. we Hl ay Pers Posy oo i dee ook 5% iL ii — ne oe wee ecceeeee a 27 che a ee ; = Calfsking, green nk 4 @ 5 3 lb. le ee pes NUTS. go ee east Foam ............ ---1 00 eured...,.. F BE * A mon 8, ‘aiTAgona. . Mele eee ec aa. @i7 @ and GO) Ib. boxes.......... 3% —— Sa oo = Deacon skins ne 10 @2s5 Extra Mess, warranted 200 Ibs.. 7 50 i .. Li @is Barrelg.................. --. 8% | Royal ..........-.-0-++- +--+ No. 2 hides \ off. Extra Mess, Chicago packing............... % 50 _ California. Le @i18 ia 7 hi sxcrr, TEAS PELTS Hooelees, ramp Osis... 12 50 — new. eee es o Scotch, in bladders......... 37 ey _Car i Maccaboy, in jars........... 35 yaran—Reeular Shearlings............. 10 @ 20 SMOKED mEaTs—Canvassed or Plain. sa, | Walnuts, Grenoble, o13% french Rappee, in Jars..... 43 | Pair S " @iv | Lambs ........--..-.- 165 @ Hams, a ae EE ie ts } arbot. @ nll fl eld li gl : a eae i al a UMN lg dl le ‘“ Call i. 1! 13 aa SODA, a Good eset 4 WwooL ( . foe “11M | gable Nuts, faney. oa ql a BIOKOB cw ccc ces ccr ence sccves eee ee eae ss ee , Washed.. . os @18 ‘“ picnic.. nh Ee. choice ie @i2 on a 4% — Lees sees ee — oi hn AO “"e @l4 ‘“ = best eee 13 Poeans Vexusl oo Bo, @13 SALT. ee 2 Shoulders........---..--02- eee - cere eee eee ee 8% Cocoanuts, full sacks a @4 00 r - 100 3-Ib. sacks ee oe SUN CURED. MISCELLANEOUS. Breakfast Bacon boneless.................... 14 PEANUTS. eee de ane ses 2 00 Ore) UPaMowi 3 @ Dried beef, ham prices GE 10% rag ag ee @6 28 10-Ib. sacks Deca ce ee 1 85 @2 | Grease butter ........ 1 @2 Long Clears, ee EE ‘ar es an @ 7% - ~ oo ag bette ence eee i. Saeees 2 O34 Siwienen 1%@ 2 | Briskets, —— a Ce 1134 Fancy, H. P., Flags..........-.... 0.204. @ 6 24 eee 50 So ee Ginseng.. boa cll 15@2 0 06 i: mee .....-... a Eee “ Roasted. 7% i dairy in — a. = Dank... .... 2. ----50 @Ie ee Choice, H. P., Extras..... a ¢ 5 3 _ “ 5 BASKET FIRED. < Hooded .. BA ‘cau 7 Fair ....... une is @2) | GRAINS and FEEDSTUFFS CANDIES, FRUITS and NUTS. Roasted @ 6% ~ 561b, dairy in drill bags... 32 peo ae e WHEAT. The Putnam Candy Co. quotes as follows: CROCKERY AND GLASSWARE. er Sib * # - . £2 im STICK CANDY. ‘RUIT JARS. . Ashton. _— irene api - eae a pod Cases Bois, Patis. | Pinta ...... -..... aid a . eee ee #5 50 » - 56 lb. dairy in linensacks.. 75] Gommon to fal.......25 @35 piticetia : Standard, per Ib......... 6% 7% | Quarts...... settee cet ee eet een eee een ees - +-. 600 Higgins. Extra fine to finest....50 @65 MEAL. “ , Peon . 6H vs eee Gilicas . Cl. . = ce... 2 be Th pe... 2 5 a 56 )h, dairy in linen sacks. 75 | Choicest fancy........ 7% @s5 | Bolted.. Ll | oma a ' gee NAN 45 Rest tock pi @26 Granulated... .......... 1 65 aur tase 8% fe i et : ee : ea TE 45 Ot, See 27 | Common to fair... ...23 @30 FLOUR. Bxtra 1 H........ i 8% No.0 Su IMPERIAL. No. 1 ek ee eee ee ec ec ease cae 50 Common Fine, Common to fair....... 23 @26 Straight, in SacKA......... 3 30 MIXED CANDY. ae Sei 70 | Superior tofine........ 30 @35 barrels........ 3 55 Bos. Be 7 i ~ Mae YOUNG HYSON. —— | oe... eT oe ‘i LAMP CHIMNEYS. Per box. i Commor. to fair....... 18 @26 : af barrels........ Ry 8 v 6 doz. in box. SALERATUS, Superior to fine....... 30 @4e Graham LC Sacks... -- ; = ta... 6% 7% | No. OSUN........ee2 e ceeee eee _12% a -” Packed 60 lbs, in box. ENGLISH BREAKFAST. eee r Nobby Ce 7 8 | No.1 § oo 1 88 Cimfee es ................,. a ee 18 @2 MILLSTUFFS, (ee 7 © (‘Mar © ...... 2 70 EN ee 24 @28 Less eae... 7 8 First quality. ae “ ~ Dwight’s.... .. - BY | Best.......-..2- eee 40 @50 Car lots quantity | Broken Taffy.............. baskets : ae 0 Sun, crimp top.. 2 10 "eeiere.........--.--. _o . ae 25 PeanutSquares............ af | 2 SOAP, TOR AOORS. a 00 3 ou | Brench Oresms.......... -..-+--. * No.2 5 a 3 25 i ¥ ; 5 ee , ny honey. snr aeeeaien:~:> es oe ae - Mid ae 30 Ib. baskets. ee -- 8 |No.0Sun, crimp top.. 60 Allen B. Wrisley’s Brands. Pails unless otherwise noted Mixed Feed... 15 00 18 5 Se ae ie 8 | No.1 80 Old Country, 80 1-Ib........ 3 291 Razoo. @30 | Coarse meal .. 17 50 ea ae a cl No.2 « u a 80 Good Cheer, 6011b.......... 3 90 Can Can.... FAaNcy—In bulk P oe - CORN. earl top. White Borax, 100 3{-Ib...... 3 65 | Nellie Die... 5 i i a Palls. | no. 1 Sun, wrapped and labeled i. 370 Proctor & Gamble. Uncle ben... 8 +p re settee ar ie 45 | Lozenges, plain CO a. el le ae 470 CO 36 Hiweibe............ 60 ess than Car 10t8......---- ea 11 | No. 2 Hinge, “ ts rn lass hyery, oF OF... .:.. ....... 6 75 | Sweet Cuba......... : 34 OATS. Chocolate va ee eee tae 11% La Bastie. © oe... 4 00 | McGinty .............. 27 1 30 Chocolate Monumentals.................+-5- 13 No. 1 Sun, plain bulb, per doz. oo. 1 25 Lener. ... 3 65 . i, Ble. ...... 25 Car ee iot: ee Gia Decee. | 8... --- 5%] No. «ae ceaceasee ck GO Mottled German.. $ 15 | Dandy Jim..:........- 2 Less than car lots.......... Moss a He cela ait Mae a a ei Sila asl icine tials oo i No. 1 crimp, Per dOZ.--. 2... eee eee eee eee ee 1 35 Town Talk..............-++ | Torpedo... .... ...... 2 HAY Sour Drops eee ee 1 60 . ‘ g ae ae ee 10 Dingman Brands. _ in drums 23 : ee ieee eee Single guy rr ee Wee PO coc = _ 1 oe a S oot antes, Per Bien [eG per ee. 23 5 box lots, delivered....... 3 85 | 189%-..-.-------++ +++ : Oe ie SE ee ea 2 S Agito ou, * GrOnae.........--- 22 a No 2, _ oe a 38 10 box lots, delivered...... 3% FRESH MEATS. Sour Drops. et ceee rent teas caesecacae cua sthe No.3, ‘i a 7 Jas. 8. Kirk & Co.’s Brands. Plug. Peppermint Drops. dee ee ge : iano per ee LALA AT AA American Family, d..84 00 Sorg’s Brands. Boot, Carcams........-.. 4%@ 7 CE EE “ ibe appt plain... 2 94 Spearhead ce 41 ss hind quarters...6 @5 H, x. adaiale oe... cea 40680 Butter C rocks, 1 to 6 gal...... f ae N. K. Fairbanks & Co.’s Brands, | Joker ......-.--++++--: 29 : gol “ a “eS + yeaa nig, ae seettecreseeeeceee ci tees sae a . Magee dee 60 , oins, s. ( : seein a a im, ee ee 4 00 Nobby Twist........-.-. 41 ae 7 @ 8%| A.B. Licorice Drops............ Ca RCA go | Jugs, % gal., per dos. 70 Brown, 60 bars 2 40 Scotten’s Brands ~ 60 1 to 4 gal., per gal.......... «-- OF ie... 9 Seat ia oe 20 ee oe 4 Sal. per Gos... oo. oases. 8 Hiawatha.......-.s... - (eee hc sioroimanainntl eo rE a a RNR Se ee. 60's rene Valley City ...... seas a | Pork ee. 3 7" itn. ee eat aud 2 STONEW ARE BLAGE GLAZED. ra oe eres anit onetetsay a ae Finzer’s Brands, Sausage, bload orhead @ : pepe eee eed ee te sete uen sae naa ee —_ Milk Pans, # gals--- a ase S oo ew 8) - ca Ss eee ee ae se 18 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. (Continued from Page 14.) reputation that Michigan fruit has away from home. The green vegetable trade has been constantly on the increase, so that now the gardeners occupy several blocks of our principal streets every morning. I have seen a great many different markets in large cities, and do not hesitate to say that Grand Rapids furnishes to-day one of the best and finest markets of any city in the country. We have often heard people who go away from home, when they return, speak of the Washing- ton or New Orleans or Philadelphia or New York markets; but if anyone has a desire to visit a great market and see strictly fresh goods offered for sale, he need not go away from home, as we have the best the land can afford and we have all that one can ask for here on our own market. There have been times when it was estimated that there were 600 teams on our market in one day, wagons loaded with peaches, pears, plums, apples, grapes, potatoes and all kinds of vegeta- bles. It is well for our merchants to consider the hundreds of thousands of dollars which are brought into this locality and the surrounding counties every year and distributed for fruit alone, which, to a certain extent, either directly or indi- rectly, they receive the benefit of. A large amount of the fruit thatis raised in this locality, is shipped to adjoining cities and states and the money for the fruit is brought back into this State and distributed among the people. This brings ready cash into circulation, daily, and within from sixty to ninety days. It is fully as interesting on our market here from 5 to 7 o’clock in the morning asitisin any city in the United States and the display of vegetables and fruits is equal to any raised and offered for sale on any market, being always strictly fresh, coming direct from the gardens, and fruit direct from the orchards. Com- paratively speaking, very few people of our city realize the activity and stir which is going on between 3 and 7 o’clock in the morning, and we think it would well pay most any one to occasion- ally get up early in the morning and take a view of our home market. Itisa sight well worth seeing. To show the prosperity of the garden- ers in this locality, one has only to take a drive on almost any road leading from this city and notice the fine gardens and small farms of five to twenty acres and the large greenhouses which can be seen in almest any direction. Nearly every greenhouse is enlarged every year, which surely indicates prosperity. Michigan is not dependent on fruit alone, as there are hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of clover seed, beans and potatoes shipped from this State yearly, finding markets as far South as the extreme southern border of Texas and Florida, and to the West and North- western States, and to the Atlantic Ocean on the East. Michigan seems to be more fortunate than some other states, as she never fails entirely on any of her crops and fruits. Of course, some seasons, the crops are much lighter than others, but seldom, if ever, was there known to be an entire failure. To the abundance of water on our borders we can attribute to some extent the fine climate we have. The large body of water to the west of us moder- ates the cold West winds and this pro- tects our fruit trees. Atthe same time our climate is cold enough to make the fruit hardy and of good flavor. E. A. MOSELEY. The Provision Trade. Prior to Dec. 1, 1882, the provision trade of Grand Rapids was mainly done by the wholesale grocers of the city. At that time Cody, Ball & Co., Hawkins & Perry, Arthur Meigs & Co., John Caul- field, Fox, Musselman & Loveridge, Rice & Moore and Shields, Bulkley & Lemon organized the Grand Rapids Packing and Provision Co., with a capital stock of $30,000, and turned all their provision orders over to the new house, besides giving it the benefit of their united influ- ence. The venture owed its existence to the fact that the wholesale grocers were making provisions a leader, selling at cost or below cost, and giving 30 and 60 days’ time on the goods. The new company sold goods on ten days only and maintained these terms three years, when Cody, Ball & Co. and Hawkins & Perry pulled out of the corporation and began handling provisions on their own ac- count, when 30 days again became the rule. These terms prevailed until Aug. 10 of this year, when all the houses at this market handling provisions promul- gated an announcement that the former terms of 10 days would be resumed. The growth of the provision trade of the city has kept pace with the increase in population and the gradual growth of business in alllines. In 1883 the total sales of the Provision Co. were $386,000. The company is now on an independent basis, so far as its connection with any jobbing house is concerned, yet in 1892 the sales aggregated $328,000, during which time the wholesale grocers proba- bly sold provisions to the amount of as much more, making the total sales in this line $656,000. In addition to the sale of provisions proper, the fresh meat trade of the city now amounts to at least $600,000. The past decade has brought about a marked change in the attitude of the re- tail dealer toward the Grand Rapids market. The retailer buys here because he finds he can purchase goods cheaper, freights considered, than in Chicago. This is due to the fact that packers make a wide distinction between large and small buyers, as they do not like to be bothered with small transactions. H. N. Moore. The Shoe Findings Trade. This industry is a modern one. In the olden time Eastern manufacturers of boots and shoes cut their stock and the shoemakers who made it up had to fur- nish their own findings, such as pegs, thread, wax, etc. Out of thisold custom has grown an important mercantile and manufacturing industry devoted to shoe findings. Ten years ago this industry eut no figure in Grand Rapids. To-day it is one of our leading industries, repre- senting an annual trade of $150,000, with a regularly worked territory, em- bracing Michigan and Northern Indiana. In addition to this, the business com- mands a mail trade reaching to the Gulf of Mexico and the Pacific Coast. The manufacture of uppers is a leading feat- ure in this business. Seven years ago it was commenced by the trade in this city, since which time it has developed into a yearly output of from 6,000 to 7,000 pairs. The country custom shoemaker has very little use for patterns nowa- | days. He is furnished by this trade with uppers ready stretched, soles cut to match, and the hundred and one things which enter into the make-up of a boot or shoe. The old-fashioned peg of the days of our grandfathers is fast disap- pearing. Where 600 or 800 bushels of pegs were formerly sold, now 100 bushels meet all demands. A brass clinch nail known as the ‘‘cobbler’s nail” is driving the peg into the background. EpGak T. HIrtH. The Cracker Industry. Ten years ago thirty-five barrels of flour per day was sufficient to supply the demands of the craeker and biscuit man- ufacturing trade of the city. To-day, a daily supply of 125 barrels is required in this industry. During the past ten years Grand Rapids crackers have won a repu- tation second to none manufactured in the United States. Nine road salesmen are employed in this industry, the prod- uct being sold principally in Michigan, Indiana, Ohio and Pennsylvania. Ten years ago the product was confined pret- ty much to crackers, but since that time there has been a remarkable develop- ment of sweet goods in an endless variety of form and style. Honey is used in large quantities in the manufacture of these sweet goods. Michigan honey can- not be obtained in sufficient quantities to supply the demands of the city trade, and it is shipped here from California at the rate of five carloads per annum. S. A. SEARS. The Hardwood Lumber Trade. The hardwood lumber trade of the city is directly associated with the fur- niture interests. A conservative estimate of the total consumption of hardwood lumber in Grand Rapids ten years ago would be 10,000,000 feet, whereas to-day it has reached the enormous quantity of 50,000,000 feet. About 2,000,000 feet of this is used in the building furnishing trade for inside and outside use. The balance is used in the furniture industry principally. The hardwood trade in- cludes oak, ash, maple, basswood, white wood, soft elm, birch and cherry. Dur- ing the past three years large quantities have been shipped in from outside points, south and west, principally from Indiana and Ohio. In addition to the native wood lumber used in our market, we im- port from Central America annually about 1,000,000 feet of mahogany, and about 10,000 feet of English live oak for veneering purposes from Great Britain. Ten years ago first and second grade walnut was in good demand at $150 per thousand; to-day it is in poor demand at $60 per thousand. Formerly it was plentiful within sixteen miles of the city, but it has disappeared from our home forests, and its popularity has has gone withit. The English prize it, however, andit is being taken from the mountains of Tennessee and elsewhere and exported to the English market. Ten years ago there were only two hard- wood lumber dealers in the city—to-day there are about twelve firms in the busi- ness. A. i, MATOR, The Drug Business. No other branch of the jobbing trade of Grand Rapids shows greater progress in the past ten years than the drug busi- ness, both in the increase of sales and in new territory gained. There is but one exclusively wholesale house in the city, so results are largely taken from its prosperity. Ten years ago but two trav- elers were employed and the business was confined wholly to Western and Northern Michigan. To-day five are constantly on the road and Michigan en- tire is the field worked. The increase of sales in this time has been about 65 per cent., each year showing a hand- some increase over the preceding one. Retail dealers who a few years ago thought Grand Rapids too small a city in which to purchase, and went to the larger markets of Detroit and Chicago, now give it their entire accounts and are willing to admit that, in quality of goods and fair prices, we are on a par with any market jobber in this line, and the larger cities that would not acknowledge this a competing point have been forced to ad- mit it. H. B. FAIRCHILD. Feed and Grain Trade. In reply to your enquiry in regard to the growth and progress of the feed and grain trade during the past ten years, we would say that the local trade has in- creased 25 per cent. Referring to promptness in paying obligations, the character of the people in general has improved. The present financial condi- tion is asevere test. Notwithstanding this condition, we have, up to this date, met with no losses on account of credits given to the dealers in this city. K. DyKEMA & Bro. The Seed Trade. Among the many mercantile industries which have sprung into prominence dur- ing the past ten years, there is none which shows a more wonderful develop- ment than the seed business. Ten years ago the business was confined pretty much to one house, representing an an- nual business of from $50,000 to $100,000. To-day the seed business of the city rep- resents an annual trade of, at least, $250,000. Ten years ago not an acre of seeds was grown under contract for this market. The present season there are 1,400 acres under contract for furnishing the Grand Rapids market with seeds. Ten years ago Grand Rapids did not im- port; to-day we are importing turnips and other seeds from Europe by the ton. The seed trade of the city has increased 300 per cent. within the last decade. Ten years ago all of our grocers kept a little supply of seeds bought from seed merchants at Philadelphia and other points; to-day the seed merchants of Grand Rapids not only supply the home demand, but they are shipping seeds into every state aud territory in the Union, and into the Dominion of Canada, also. We not only import but we export seeds to England and France. No mercantile industry has taken on a more wonderful development, or has kept pace wlth the rapid growth of the city more completely than the seed business. ALFRED J. BRown. The Hide Trade. The progress of the hide trade has been, for the time you ask—ten years— much like that of a crab—backward. Notably from 1876 to 1886 there were handled annually by buyers of this city about 70,000 to 100,000 hides, at a cost of about $5 each. Prices varied but little during those years. Later trade diminished, caused by concentration of * capital in stock yards. New ideas, or what were deemed innovations, in manu- facturing leather created more numer- ous selections. New wants calledfor new styles of goods, or, in other words, improvements in the trade, thus forcing other results, until the whole has been revolutionized, and for the better. From 1886 to date this change has been more apparent than during previous years, by forcing out the margins for local dealers and decreasing their trade and the num- bers engaged. It has, at the same time, lessened values, the price per hide in 1887 being $4; in 1892, $3, and now, in 1893, the price has dropped to $2@2.25, the lowest point ever known to the trade. Simultaneously, the quantity has dimin- ished to the approximate number of 30,- 000 to 50,000 pieces per year. Wa. T. HEss. The Lime Trade. The manufacture and sale of lime, cement, and building material is one of the pioneer industries of Grand Rapids, and is more intimately connected with the growth and development of the city than any other industry. In an early day the lime used for building purposes was obtained by burning the stone taken out of the bed of Grand River. This home material has been crowded out of the market by Petoskey and Ohio manu- facturers, who, possessing better manu- facturing facilities, are enabled to place it in our market at a cheaper rate than it can be produced here. The dealer to- day can sell lime and cement as low as 85 cents and $1 per barrel, respectively. When it is remembered that out of this must be deducted the profit of both dealer and manufacturer, beside cost of barrel and freight, it will be readily seen that the facilities for manufacturing must be very great. The immense quantities of these materials demanded by the rapid growth of the city and terri- tory tributary thereto make these low prices possible. ‘‘Large sales and smal profits,” is the key-note of the lime and cement trade of Grand Rapids. The building material industry must, of ne- eessity, keep pace with the growth of the city. There are, at present, eight or nine dealers in these materials. The trade handles a great variety of materi- als, such as sewer pipe, pressed brick, stucco, plastering hair, ete., all of which are consumed in large quantities in the rapid development of the city. S. A. MoRMAN. The Bean Trade. Referring to your letter regarding the bean business of Western Michigan and its progress for the past ten years, I will state only in so far as I myself am and have been interested. Going back a lit- tle farther than ten years, back to 1881, the writer commenced in asmall way to handpick beans. The manner was very crude, as I had had no experience. The stock in those days was scarce and would not warrant the outlay of machinery. Picking was done from tables, the same as our mothers did years ago. Our out- put that winter was only three carloads, about 1,500 bushels, yet we thought we were doing quite a business. In 1882 and 1883 no improvements were made, and very little increase in the business. In 1884 there was quite a crop—more than could be easily handled in the old way—solI devised a table with a canvas top that moved about twelve feet a minute, carrying the beans before the pickers in such quantities as would al- low the girls to pick about ten bushels each a day. (The old way a girl could pick only about a bushel in ten hours.) This table was not patented, as I did not think then there would be beans enough grown to keep such a table going more than two or three months in a year; but the writer was mistaken, for there are hundreds of them in use now for picking bean, peas, ete. The business in required two tables for about five months. From that time until 1890 it continued to increase, when I had to have more room. I then built on West Bridge street an elevator and warehouse for the exclusive handling of beans. With our improved machinery for cleaning, and railroad fa- cilities for loading and unloading, hav- ing a track on either side of our build- ing, we have a daily capacity of 2,000 bushels of handpicked beans for every nine working hours. Comparing our business during the winter of 1881 and 1882—about three carloads—with the winter of 1892 and 1893—nearly 500 ecar- loads—you can form your own idea of the increase of the bean trade in West- ern Michigan. Ten or fifteen years ago very little of the food quality of beans was known. We of the West hardly realized that anyone would care for them, excepting Boston people, who had to have ‘‘baked beans,” and, perhaps, a few lumbermen and miners. To-day the United States consume over 5,000,000 bushels, yearly, of the common white bean. The impor- tations from Austria and Germany in the winter of 1892 and 1893 were over 1,500,- 000 bushels, and to-day, all through the United States, this product cuts a large figure as an article of food. W. T. LAMOREAUX. 1885 The Cigar Business. A comparison between the status of the cigar industry in this city ten years ago and that of the present time will show that the cigar trade has developed proportionately with the other industries of the city. Many factories have sprung into existence within that time and the annual product has been multiplied sev- eral times. There are at present about forty-five factories in the city, the most of which have made their appearance during the past ten years. The annual product, of course, has not increased in proportion to the increase in the number of factories, as a large percentage of them are small concerns employing very few hands. To give an idea of the rela- tive significance of these forty-five fac- tories, | will say that whereas the whole of them employ but 122 hands, we em- ploy from twenty-five to thirty ourselves. HuGo SCHNEIDER. Merchandise Brokerage. Reminisences of the brokerage busi- ness for twelve years! Great Scott! They would fill a book larger than Bro. Stowe would care to print. My experi- ences (trials, I might say) with John Caulfield (that good natured Irish Lord) would take a month to relate. Let me see. Twelve yearsago. Amos Musselman was then keeping books for Graff, Shields & Co.; O. A. Ball was working up anice city trade for Cody, Ball & Co.; Heman Barlow was shipping elerk for John Caulfield; Lew. Hawkins was making his annual trips to Cincin- nati, where he purchased whole train- loads of hogshead sugar and New Orleans molasses; Arthur Meigs was just making a name for himself as a hustler, and Il was a green boy, just out of school, hold- THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. ing down a chair (most of the time) in the office of that noble pioneer in the business, H. F. Hastings, with no more idea of the brokerage business than an African savage has of the present ‘‘good old Democratic” financial stringency. In those days the jobber sorted up his sugar stock daily, buying ten barrels of one grade, five of another, fifteen of an- other and so on, no one order amounting to very much, but aggregating a good trade every day. Their trade gradually increased until by two or three of them load of seventy-five barrels direct from the refiner. Things drifted along like this for some time until, finally, the re- finer made the rule that he would sell in 100-barrel lots only and to one purchaser oniy. What a howl went up from the jobbers! One would think that they were to be driven out of the business by this ‘‘arbitrary’? rule which compelled them to buy such animmense quantity of sugar at one time. How well I re- member a certain order given me by Sam. Lemon, up in the old store on Division street. It was for 125 barrels, and was the -largest single order that l had ever taken. Seven years later Mr. Lemon gave me an order for1,100 barrels without as much fuss as the 125 barrel order caused. In those days no such thing was known as Clear Back or Morgan pork. Mess pork was all the go and what quantities of it we did sell! And plug tobacco! Arthur Meigs was then pushing his cele- brated ‘‘Red Fox,’’ and orders from him for 1,000 butt lots were no uncommon things. But these things have all changed. Competition between the manufacturers has become so close that a firm which wishes to keep its goods on the market is compelled to have men working the retail trade constantly. This a broker eannot do on the small brokerage that he gets; consequently, lines which for- merly paid well are dropped out alto- gether and new ones substituted. Through all of these changes there is one noticeable fact, and that is that the class of goods now handled by the jobber is of a much better quality than ten years ago. Then we sold large quanti- ties of such goods as soaked peas, corn, succotash, etc. Now, hardly a ease of these goods is sold, while larger quanti- ties of fancy goods are disposed of. The jobbers’ trade in those days was largely with the lumber camps, where ‘‘every- thing went.’ Now, this trade is prac- tically gone and the consumer is the well-to-do farmer, mechanic and artisan, who demand a better class of goods. Now that I have ‘‘reminist,’? I will get down to a short review of the broker- age business. It was about 1875 that Donald McKenzie, then traveling fora tea importer, conceived the idea that Grand Rapids, with its six exclusive job- bers and one wholesale and retail deal- er, was agood point for a broker and located here. The same idea struck H. F. Hastings, who was making Michigan for Boies, Fay & Conkey, of Chicago, and he started in also. Mr. McKenzie soon tired of the business and quit, leaving the field to Mr. Hastings, who was the only broker here for several years. Others, however, soon came in until at one time, I remember, we had thirteen brokers on the street. This state of af- fairs could not last long and the number has gradually decreased until, at present, How things have changed since then! | clubbing together they could buy a car- | 19 | there are five firms, making lively com- petition for the jobbers’ trade. In the meantime brokers have come and gone, jand I think I do not exaggerate when | | say that at different times we have had | upwards of forty brokers here. In closing, | wish to say a word in our | behalf. ja broker The inexperienced often regard as an expense that the buyer | has to pay for, aud that the goods bought of a broker have the brokerage added in | in way. This is a mistake. A | manufacturer or importer cannot place | his goods on the market cheaper than through the medium of the broker, and less expense in selling his wares means a some lower cost to the buyer. At the same time, the brokers give to the buyer the benefit of the competition of the world and the saving to the buyer in this way is many times what the broker receives for making the sale. The broker isa necessity and has come to stay. CuHas. N. REMINGTON, JR. Commercial Agencies. These institutions are correctly named, for they are truly the agencies of com- merce, and, like all other institutions which have ‘‘come to stay,’’ they are the outgrowth of necessity. Practically all wholesale merchandising has come to be done on credit, and even though bills are discounted upon receipt of goods, the title is passed when the goods are re- ceipted for by the transportation com- pany, which renders it absolutely neces- sary to know the responsibility and eredit of a customer before shipping, which information is what the commer- cial agency supplies. Fifty years ago commerclal agencies were almost unknown. Such _institu- tions existed, but so embryonic were they that the credit man of to-day, famil- iar as he is with present methods, would hardly recognize those crude beginnings and would find them entirely inadequate to present needs. At the commencement of commercial reporting, centers of trade were few, and, by reason of inferior transporta- tion, far between, the rapid increase in population and the almost magical im- provement in the means of communica- tion have multiplied the number and size of cities many times and vastly ex- panded trade. Every city now where it is desirable or profitable has an agency office which has charge of reporting the territory naturally tributary toit. It is nearly twenty-five years since an agency office was established in Grand Rapids and very few of the concerns then re- ported are now in business, but their suecessors are here, and the list of busi- ness men has increased many fold since then. An examination of the lists of sub- seribers to agency reports in Grand Rap- ids during the first years that the busi- ness of reporting was carried on here shows that the city, then having a popu- lation of about 15,000, numbered among its wholesale and manufacturing institu- tions furniture, grocery, lumber, liquor, confectionery, grain dealers, tanners, and, of course, banks, the number and success of which latter institutions is al- ways a sure indication of the prosperity of a community, foras a prominent busi- ness man has truly said, ‘‘Banks are like the springs under a wagon and let the business man, like the load on a vehicle, ride easy.” Users of reports in Grand Rapids and vicinity were in those days 20 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. | comparatively few, but as the State has developed from a wilderness, the market- ing of the vast forest and mineral prod- ucts and supplying the armies of labor- ers who do the work has brought into ex- istence jobbers and manufacturers in all lines, who must have their customers. Our beautiful State has grown and her trade increased until our manufacturers and jobbers rank among the first in the union and can compete successfully with all comers. We are selling in all parts of the United States and many foreign countries. Michigan merchants and manufacturers also import to a large extent and reports on them are frequently asked from abroad. A few feeble attempts have been made to discredit the commercial agency busi- ness, but the number of patrons steadily increases, and it has come to be accepted as a fact that a wholesale business cannot be successfully carried on without some- thing of the kind. ‘‘Improvement’’ has been the watchword with these institu- tions, and many valuable and useful features havebeen added to their publica- tions as the needs of subscribers have suggested. Books of reports are revised and published quarterly and now contain over 1,500,000 names of merchants, man- ufacturers, bankers, jobbers and others. HENRY Royce, Growth of the Grocery Trade. A brief retrospect of the wholesale gro- cery business for the past ten years will, I trust, be satisfactory to those engaged in the business, and alike interesting and satisfactory to your readers in gen- eral, because I hold that the interests of the wholesaler and retailer are bound to- gether andinseparable. The prosperity of the former depends largely upon the success of the latter, and vice versa. The growth of this line of business dur- ing the decade of which I write has not been phenomenal, but steady and healthy. It has simply kept pace with the growth of our city and with that of the territory tributary to this market. In all this time but two firms have retired from business, and another firm has en- tered the ranks, leaving the number of houses one less than ten years ago. But very few of the active members of the different houses have retired during this period, and there have been few acces- sions, so that there is but little change in the personnel, the management of the wholesale grocery business of the city being practically the same to-day as ten years ago; and to the credit of the whole- | sale business and honor of the city, be it said, not a single failure has oceurred in our line of business in this city, to my knowledge, during the past years. thirteen In the early ’80s, the wholesale gro-| cery trade of Grand Rapids had much with which to contend, The individual and aggregate amount of capital invested in the business in those days was much | smaller than at present, and that in itself compelled us to make our purchases smaller and more frequent. Twenty- five barrels of sugar at that time was an ordinary purchase and fifty barrels was considered quite a large one; but to-day purchases of sugar are not made of less than carload lots of 100 barrels each, and it does not at all astonish us to have a local broker come into our place of business, and, with a twinkle in his eye and a smile of gladness upon his face, information about | quietly inform us that he has just sold Mr. ——or Mr. —— 1,000 barrels of granulated sugar, ‘‘all for immediate ship- ment.” Ten years ago teas were bought from importers and tea dealers in small quantities. Now large import orders of 1,000 chests or more are placed before the goods are marketed from first hands, in Japan. Ten years ago no house here imported goods from Europe. Now it is no uncommon thing to import fish from the Netherlands and table delicacies from France and England. Ten years ago five or ten barrels of oatmeal was an ordinary purchase. To-day the ordinary purchase a carload of 125 barrels. Ten years ago ten or twenty barrels of rice was an average purchase. To-day the usual purchase is a carload of from seventy-five to 100 barrels. Ten years ago the entire wholesale trade of Grand Rapids would not distribute more than eight or ten carloads of fruit jars during the season, but I venture to say that dur- ing the present year the wholesale trade of this city will distribute not less than fifty carloads of glass fruit jars; and sol might continue to contrast or compare the individual purchases and the aggre- gate distribution of merchandise to any extent. Suffice it to say, however, that I am speaking conservatively in saying that the amount of merchandise in ton- nage or quantity handled in and out by the wholesale grocery trade of this city is five times greater than that of ten years ago. In the early jobbing days of this city we had much with which to contend in point of location, for then Grand Rapids had a population of but little over 30,000, and it was slow to be recognized by the best merchants of Western Michigan as a jobbing center of much importance; but the increasing growth of our city and the rapid and successful strides of our man- ufacturers and jobbers in all lines have placed the Valley City in the foreground of the great manufacturing and jobbing centers, and it is to-day recognized and looked to as the great and natural com- mercial depot of supply for Western Michigan. The troubles and difficulties | therefore already alluded to, and com- mon to all young and enterprising cities, have now been overcome, and here the wholesale grocer of the future will find much pleasure in his business, for Grand tapids, at present a city of 100,000 pop- ulation, metropolitan in all its ways, possessing all the facilities peculiarly essential to a great city, affords the | wholesale grocer every facility to enable is | him to successfully compete with any and all outside centers for the trade legit- imately belonging to this market. The wholesale grocers of this place have | warehouses and shipping facilities sec- | ond to nonein the country, and with a | pardonable pride 1 may be permitted to say that, taken as a whole, their sales- |rooms and offices have no equal in any | city in this broad land. Again, the wholesale grocer finds now, | and will in the future derive, much more pleasure from doing business, from daily contact with the retail merchant of | Western Michigan than in the past, for during the past ten years a wonderful | changing, thinning out and weeding out | of many floating, irresponsible and un- | principled retail merchants throughout the territory has taken place, and a class of merchants of responsibility, good | principle and high intelligence has suc- | ceeded them; and, as intelligence begets | toleration, and enables a man to rightly divine between right and wrong, so will the increased intelligence of the mer- chant of to-day enable him to adapt him- self and his business methods to the changed and progressive conditions of the times. To illustrate: Ten or twelve years ago the wholesale grocer of this city bought most if not all of his sugars on sixty days’ time, and at maturity (if not convenient to pay then) he was sometimes allowed to give his sixty-day note. Not so now, however, for to-day the refiners insist upon receiving their pay within seven days from date of in- voice, providing the jobber avail him- self of the cash discount, and often, if not always, are sugars paid for before they are in sight or received. This being true, as one example of many which might be cited, your readers as intelligent merchants can readily under- stand that the old system pursued for so many years between the retailer and the wholesaler—the former paying what he could when he could—is not now in con- formity orin keeping with present or future conditions; in fact, from center to circumference we are getting closer toa cash basis, and the grocer of the future, whether whosesale or retail, who intends to remain in business and. maintain a good name and a high credit, and who would conduct his business with pecun- iary success, must keep in mind the ab- solute necessity of so shaping his policy as to enable him to discount, if possible, all his bills, or, at least, to pay promptly at maturity. I trust that the next ten years may be to you another period of success commen- surate with your zealous and un- tiring efforts in the management of THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN—that journal of commerce which has done much to cor- rect evils in trade, to elevate commercial life toa higher plane, and in teaching always the true principles and methods essential toa just and successful busi- ness career. S. M. Lemon. Toys and Fancy Goods. This industry was not in existence to any appreciable extent ten years ago, but the market has grown to such propor- tions as to entitle it to recognition. The stocks in this city are the only complete lines shown in any city between Cleve- land and Chicago, and are not surpassed in assortments of varied and popular- priced goods in any city in the country. It has proved to be one of the best branches in which to do a profitable busi- ness, especially in ‘‘tight times,’’ as the children are ‘‘always with us,” and will not be satisfied with an excuse when it is time for old Santa Claus to arrive, and the thousands of inexpensive novelties always command a ready sale in the holi- day season. F. E. LEONARD. The Flour Industry. During the past few years there has been a wonderful revolution in the pro- cesses of milling. The old, time-honored stones have given place to the modern rolls. In no manufacturing industry have greater improvements been brought about by the aid of improved machinery, or more radical changes made in the various processes of manufacture, than in the milling business. This is seen in the improved methods of cleaning wheat and in the purifying of middlings by the advent of dustless purifiers. Radical changes have been made in bolting. The old-fashioned, long hexagon reel has dis- appeared and in its place we have the short, round reel. The introduction of the improved dust collector is another great, advantage which the old millers did not enjoy. One of the most recent improvements in milling machinery is the combined scalper, grader and puri- fier—three combined in one in such a way as to secure desired results more expeditiously with much less power and space than by old methods. In this march of improvement the millers of Grand Rapids have taken the lead in the State of Michigan. They are imbued with a spirit of enterprise, always on the alert to test every new in- vention and improved method, and adopt whatever possesses real merit. This un- tiring zeal in progressive enterprise has given Grand Rapids millers a reputation for manufacturing the choicest grades of flour, which has become national in scope. Grand Rapids flour is steadily increasing in popularity, not only at home, but all over the Southern and New England States, and in foreign mar- kets, for it must be remembered that Grand Rapids millers export part of their surplus. During the past ten years all of the city mills have been remodeled and re- fitted, fully doubling their capacity. The bulk of the choice wheat grown in the Grand River Valley is now ground in Grand Rapids. The Valley City Mill- ing Co. was the first to change from stones {to rolls and was soon followed by the other mills. This company has recently equipped its mills with the new bolting system, and the others are contemplating alike change. The mil- lers of Grand Rapids have ever been to | the front in the development of the city’s commercial enterprise, a fact which is duly appreciated by the business men and other citizens of the city, as shown in the almost exclusive use of city made flour. In almost every grocery store in Michigan may be seen sacks of flour bearing the name of Grand Rapids. Who can tell how much has been accomplished in the wonderful advancement of our city by the millions of sacks of flour which go out from the city mills every year, each one bearing the name of Grand Rapids in large, fancifully col- ored letters, and containing the ‘‘staff of life’? for every man’s table? Thus, a continuous stream of the very best kind of advertising is being done for the wheat producers of the Grand River Valley, the city milling industry, and, indirectly, the city itself, by an actual demonstration of the advantages we en- joy. Wo. N. Rowe. The Fish Trade. The fish trade of the city is not behind other lines in the development of Grand Rapids as the distributing center for Western Michigan. Grand Rapids fur- nishes a market for a ton of fresh fish daily, three-fourths of which come from the north. In addition to this about 500 pounds of fresh salt water fish are mar- keted, on an average, per day. It will be seen from these figures that the city’s annual fresh fish trade has reached pro- portions which tip the beam at over 750,- 000 pounds annually; and 75,000 gallons would be a fair estimate of the annual oyster trade, 34,000 of which is consumed by the city. There are four firms in the city extensively engaged in the oyster trade, and two of these represent the fish The lobster trade averages, Concluded on Page 8. business. * «~ MILTON KERNS’ icles Puritano Cigar. ences THE FINEST 10 Gent Cigar on Barth TRADE SUPPLIED BY SATEMAN & FOX, ae Bay City. B. J. REYNOLDS, Grand Rapids. R OPPENHEIMER, East Saginaw. Tosacco Co., Detroit. Mich. WOIGT ERPOLSHENE & UU, WHOLESALE Dry Goods, Carpets and Cloaks We Make a Specialty of Blankets, Quilts and Live Geese Feathers. Mackinaw Shirts and Lumbermen’s Socks. OVERALLS OF OUR OWN MANUFACTURE. fe, eee. 6 d a a Grand Rapids. Detroit SEE QUOTATIONS. MUSKEGON BAKERY UNITED STATES BAKING Co.,, CRACKERS, BISCUITS, CAKES. “MUSKEGON BRANCH.” HARRY FOX, Manager, MUSKEGON, MICH. Spring & Company, IMPORTERS AND WHOLESALE DEALERS IN Originators of the Celebrated Cake, Dress Goods, Shawls, Cloaks, Notions, Ribbons, Hosiery, Gloves, Underwear, Woolens, Flannels, Blankets, Ginghams, Prints and Domestic Cottons, We invite the attention of the trade to our complete and well assorted stock at lowest market prices. Spring & Company. Glass Covers for Biscuits. Cracker Chests. I ‘HESE chests will pay for themselves in the breakage they avoid. Price $4. aT | UR new glass covers are by far the handsomest ever offered to the trade. They are made to fit any of our boxes and can be changed from one box to anotherina moment They will save enough goods from flies, dirt and prying fingers in a short time to pay for themselves. Try them and be convinced. Price, 50 cents each. NEW NOVELTIES We call the attention of the trade to the following new novelties: CINNAMON BAR. ORANGE BAR. CREAM CRISP. NEWTON, arich finger with fig filling. the best selling cakes we ever made. THE NEW YORK BISCUIT CO., S. A. Sears, Mer. GRAND RAPIDS. ASAFE INVESTMENT An order placed with us for goods of our own manufacture. Our fac- tory is one of the largest in the State, and its products are trade winners wherever sold. MOSS HONEY JUMBLES. This is bound to be one of OUR SPECIALTY: | SIDE ISSUES: HGH GRADE GOMFEGTONERY, | ™>?9setemzsne, 8 Try Us, THE PUTNAM CANDY CO. GOLD IS COMING! PROSPERITY IS ON THE WAY! AND THE OPPORTUNITY TO BUY SILVER aoa At rock bottom price is now. A high grade Laundry Soap made especially for washing, cleansing and puri- fying. Now is the time to buy. See price list. Order from any wholesale grocer. MANUFACTURED BY THE THOMPSON & CHUTE SOAP 60. Toledo, Ohio. MICHIGAN Fire & Marine Insurance Go. Organized 1881. How to Keep a Store. By Samuel H. Terry. A book of 400 pages written from the experience and observation of an old merchant. It treats of Selection of Busi ness, Location. Buying, Selling, Credit, Adver- tising, Account Keeping, Partnerships, etc. Of great interest to every one in trade. $1.50, THE TRADESMAN CO., Ag’ts. DETROIT, MiCHIGAN Grand Rapids, Mich. scree MASON FRUIT JARS B—4 the prices advance, which they are sure to do a little laterin the season. We will hold the following quotations open until the next issue of Tae TRADESMAN One oiet Meson cans, packod, 6 dor. In a cane. ....:-- 2... ol. $5 50 (ms euart Mason cams, packed, § doz in a cnse... ............-.....2.5 0.2... 6 00 Cons alt wal. een cans. packed, 6 Gor. im eB GbBe.. 8k 8 v0 (ns bint Mason cans, packed, i doz in a®case...... ........25.........5... 7 50 [es Gere Sheen Cans, pkeked, | Gor. in & Case....._....05. 2 8 00 One-balf sal. Mason cans, packed, | @oz. in acase...........--- ...0 5-455. 10 00 Don’t delay but send your order at once to H. Leonard & Sons GRAND RAPIDS, MICH om a 4 ~ nw” cactor® 7 FULL CREAM CHEESE} GRANDRAPIDS, 24 MICH. QUALITY WINS! | And you can depend on the best qual- The Following ———_/ Is the best line of Coffees in the State. All roasted by CHASE & SANBORN. IF YOU WANT THE BEST THESE ARE THE GOFPEES FOR YOU YO BUY. Jewell’s Arabian Mocha, Jewell’s Old Government Java, Jewell’s Old Government Java and Mocha, Wells’ Perfection Java, Wells’ Java and Mocha, Weaver’s Blend, Santora, Ideal Golden Rio, Compound Crushed Java. Above are all in 50-pound cans, Ideal Java and Mocha in one and two pound eans. Clark, ~ y Grocery Ea CO. ity when you buy this Brand. GRAND RAPIDS, BRUSH COMPY, BRUSHES Our Goods are solid by all Michigan Jobbing Houses. MANUFACTUR ERS OF i Se GRAND RAPIDS, | MICH. i I STOP AND CONSIDER How you can obtain a Pack of A. DOUGHERTY’S Celebrated World Renowned PLAYING CARDS FREE! — $9 —______.. If you want good, light, sweet Bread and Biscuits use FERMENTUM THE ONLY RELIABLE SOLD BY ALL FIRST-CLASS GROCERS. ——-——0 Save the Tin-Foil Wrappers and our White Diamond Labels, and when you have TWENTY-FIVE send them (or fifteen cents), to our agency and they will send you a full deck of “FERMENTUM” PLAYING CARDS. For Purity and Excellence FERMENTUM, the only reliable COMPRESSED YEAST is superseded by none. It is made from selected Corn, Rye and Malt. It does not contain any acids or chemicals to make it white, being sold in its natural state, the color of Rye. Try it, and you will always have good Bread. Follow directions. Ask for and insist upon having FERMENTUM, the only reliable COMPRESSED YEAST. Manufactured only by THE RIVERDALE DISTILLERY, THE OLDEST MANUFACTURERS IN THE WEST. General Offices: 264 to 270 Kinzie St., Chicago Ill. Grand Rapids Agency: No. 106 Kent Street. ¥. € = L r ! COMPRESSED YEAST -