attained a greater height since the civil war.




Stinson Brothers have reduced the prices of their Tap-
estry and Velvet carpeting 5 cents a yard, •



Brown. — H. V. Brown, who has been long and favorably known
throughout New York State in connection with carpeting and mat-
tings, has made arrangements to represent John H. Pray, Sons &
Co. throughout this State, and will make his headquarters at Troy,
N. Y. Mr. Brown has always had the reputation of a thoroughly
reliable and altogether patient salesman, with the result that he has
surrounded himself by many staunch friends, and we doubt not that
this season, with the effect of giving him as good a send-off as
possible in his new position, many orders will be reserved for
him. He will represent both the carpetings and mattings of Pray,
Sons & Co.

Clark. — George B. Clark, of George B. Clark & Co., carpet and
furniture dealers, Bridgeport, Conn., is a new papa, but there is no
truth in the rumor that the little one already sings "Daddy, You're
So Good"; it's another song.

Coon. — Frank Coon, who has had charge of the carpet depart-
ment of Frankenstein & Co., Westerly, R. I., has decided to return
to his former home in the West.

Craft. — H. T. Craft, manager of the carpet and upholstery
department of the Keely Company, Atlanta, Ga. , was in New York
last week purchasing fall supplies. Mr. Craft reports a very satis-
factory trade during the spring season, especially in matting, sales
of which have been beyond the utmost anticipations and far ahead
of any previous season. The space in his department has been
increased during the past six months, and the company are well
satisfied with their business in these goods.

Dyer. — Herbert S. Dyer, formerly a well-known carpet salesman,
is doing well as agent for a surety company at Portland, Me. Mr.
Dyer left the carpet trade about four years after a twelve years' ex-
perience in it as salesman for the E. S. Higgins Carpet Company
and Arnold, Constable & Co.

Georg. — Charles Georg, an employee of the Day Carpet and Fur-
niture Company, Peoria, 111,, has a brother in the gold region, from
whom he is very anxious to hear. The man left Portland with five
others, and has been in Alaska since January 5. It is doubtful if he
knows that war has been declared, or of other important events.
Mr. Georg, of Peoria, wrote to his brother some time ago, directing
the letter in charge of one who is interested in the expedition, but
has been advised that his letter will not reach his brother before
June 15.

Knapp — Day. — Hiram Miller Knapp, son of Sheppard Knapp, of
Sheppard Knapp & Co., and Miss Grace Martin Day were married
at the Mount Morris Baptist Church, New York, last evening, 14th
inst.

TuRKiNGTON. — Alexander Turkington, superintendent of the La-
fayette (Ind. ; Carpet Company, went to Fort Wayne on the 2d inst.
and was there united in marriage to Mrs. Mary J. Turkington, from
whom he was divorced soon after he became a resident of Lafayette.

V.AN Gaasbeek. — A. B. Van Gaasbeek, the veteran Albany carpet
dealer, is fully up to the times in everything concerning the trade.
He was a notable buyer at the Smith Company's auction sale last
month, and showed excellent judgment, as usual, in his purchases.

Yardum. — Armen Yardum, of Yardum Brothers & Co., importers,
of Oriental rugs, sailed for Europe recently on the steamship Lucania.
During his trip abroad he will visit all the principal rug districts of
the Orient and will include Japan and India in his tour. Mr.
Yardum will meet in Damascus, his buyer, Mr. Dommar, who pre-
ceded him in search of novelties and specialties in Damascus furni-
ture, antique lamps, arms, armor, draperies, &c.



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■^ OBITUARY NOTES. ^^

Daniel Burnman, an old and well-known citizen of Mil-
ton, Pa., died there on June 3, in the seventy-fourth year
of his age. He served as deputy postmaster in the latter
part of the sixties. His trade was that of a carpet weaver
and he acted as superintendent and manager of the State
prison carpet and jute manufacturing department of the
Northumberland County jail for several years

Mrs. Eliza Lacey, widow of John Lacey, of the old car-
pet firm of Ailing & Lacey, and mother of D. E. Lacey,
manager of the carpet department of Ehrich Brothers,
New York, died on the 6th inst. at the age of sixty-nine
years.

Charles Flagg, an old and well-known carpet and furni-
ture dealer at Richmond, Me., died on the 21st ult. at the
age of eighty-five years. He started in business in 1867,
having bought the stock and good will of the late Charles
White. In 1872 J. C. Flagg, his son, became his partner
and about six years ago purchased the entire interest of,
his father, who then retired from business. A widow and
two sons survive him.

In the death of Elijah Jenkins, aged eighty years, who
passed away at the home of his son, Elijah Jenkins, Jr ,
in Auburn, Mass., on the 10th inst. , Worcester loses one of
the oldest carpet weavers that ever lived there. The deced-
ent was the first carpet weaver that ever went to Worcester,
and on his arrival there he entered the employ of George
Crompton. He also had the honor of weaving the first
Velvet carpet that was ever woven in this country.
Besides several sons here he has relatives in England.

The mercantile agencies announce the death of H. T.
Clock, of Clock Brothers, Eastman & Co., Islip, N. Y. ;
J. A. Hartly, of E. A. & J. H. Hartly, Emporia, Va.



UNDER GOOD HEADWAY.

JUDGE Brothers Carpet Company have their fall busi-
ness under good headway, and, as was to be expected,
their large and handsome assortment of new patterns in
all grades commands attention from buyers. The travel-
ing salesmen are now all out, and, while orders are not
large, the Judge Company are doubtless receiving a pro-
portionate share of the trade going. Buyers coming to
the market will have every opportunity to view the com-
plete lines in New York at the Judge Company's office in
the Hartford Building. Reference to their announcement
on page 23 will show that they produce Mortlake Tapes-
tries, a special, patented, high-class weave; Three Plys,
Standard Extra Supers, Terries, half and quarter wool
Unions, Medium Supers, Two and Three Ply Granites, 8,
9 and 10 Pair Cottons and 5-8 Ingrain stairs in all grades.
The operation of the large Harrison Mills, at Columbia
avenue and Blair street, Philadelphia, is in the hands of
the Messrs. James and William B. Judge, who have grown
up in the business under the admirable practical tuition
of the senior Messrs. Judge, now deceased. The trade
may rely upon receiving goods promptly and will find
them just as represented.



CARPET PATENTS.

Designs.

No. ?8,801. Stair Carpet Button.— Robert H. Warren, Newark,
N. J. Filed May 5, 1898. Issued June 7, 1898. Term of patent,
7 years.
Nos. 2^,826 to 28,83^, inclusive. Carpets and Borders. — Anna K.
May, Philadelphiia, assignor in each case to William H.
McCallum and Irving McCallum (McCallum & McCallum), same
place. Applications filed May 3; patents issued June 7, 1898.
Term of each patent, 3)4 years.
No 28,833. Rug — Adolph Petzhold, Philadelphia, assignor to John
H. Bromley and Edward Bromley (John Bromley & Sons), same
place. Application filed April BO; patent issued June 7, 1898.
Term of patent, 3'/, years.
No. 28.834. Rug. — Ernest H. Bennett, East Orange, N. J., assignor
to John H. Bromley and Edward Bromley (John Bromley &
Sons), Philadelphia. Application filed April ;M ; patent issued
June 7, 1898. Term of patent, 3'/, years.
No. 604,757. Carpet Fastener. — John H. James, London, England.
Filed December 20, 1897. Issued May 31, 1898.
Claim. — As a new article of manufacture a carpet holding de-
vice of arched form provided with radial points projecting vertically
upward and obliquely on both sides of the centre substantially as
set forth.

No. 604,783. Carpet Sweeper. — Joseph Parbel and Joseph A.
Staven, Grand Rapids, Mich. Filed August 20, 1897. Issued
May 31, 1898.
No. 604,987. Carpet Stretcher and Tacker.— Cyril M. Jansky, Au

Sable. Mich. Filed December 28, 1897. Issued May 31, 1898.
No. 60.5.118. Chenille Cutting Machine —William McCleary, Am-
sterdam, N. Y., assignor to McCleary, Wallin & Crouse, same
place. Filed June 22, 1897. Issued June 7, 1898.
Claim. — In a machine for cutting chenille cloth, and in combina-
tion a series of rotary disk cutters; a bed plate slotted on one edge
to receive the several cutters and having its opposite edge plain and
formed by the intersection of the plane upper and side surfaces of
the plate, the slotted edge and neighboring upper surface of the




plate being provided with warp thread grooves located interme-
diately of the cutter slots and terminating in the upper plane surface
of the plate; transverse feed mechanism located in the path of the
cloth near the cutters; a cloth roll, and a brake controlled tension
roll having a roughened cloth engaging surface located between the
bed plate and cloth roll.



According to a statement issued by the Bureau of
Statistics, 4,000,036 pounds of carpet wools were entered
for consumption during the month of May.



The benefit of a good reputation for quality and pat-
terns is standing Thos. Develon's Sons in good stead.
They are going on getting all the business possible through
active representation of their highly meritorious Ingrains.
They do not say orders are satisfactory, but are contented
with the knowledge that every effort possible is being made
to secure orders, and that they are obtaining a due share
of the business going. The Messrs. Develon report that
almost in every instance buyers tell them they will want
more of the Victoria Mills Ingrains, and will increase
orders as the carpet market settles and the general condi-
tions warrant.






No. 28,829.
McCALLUM & McCALLUM.



The Latest Patented Designs
in Floor Coverings*




No. 2SH - :ii.
McCALLUM & McCALLUM.



No -SSi^
McCALLUM &. McCALLUM.




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JOHN BROMLEY & SONS. No. 28.S34.



PACIFIC COAST AND FAR WEST NOTES.

The carpet trade is ver)' inactive. The past spring failed to
produce results hoped for, because a drought continued through
that season and struck a hard blow to business.
San Francisco, The dry spell was broken a few days ago by a
Cal. June 4. soaking rain, which, although coming late in
May, nevertheless saved the northern portion of
California from serious results. Crops are short in San Joaquin
and Sacramento Valleys, which means hard times for farmers and
other classes. The local houses are doing more or less in a general
way, but none of them is over-rushed, nor are they in danger of be-
ing so for some time to come. The shortage of grain crops and the
war are hardly conducive to brilliant trade results. This is about
the sum and substance of the situation at this writing.

Schlueter & Volberg report a fair trade in carpets and furnish-
ings.

W. & J. Sloane & Co. report general trade rather unsatisfactory,
but look for an improvement before many months have elapsed.

The Chadbourne Furniture Company at San Diego, Cal., has



purchased the stock of the San Diego Furniture and Carpet
Company.

The Chas. M. Plum & Co. Upholstery Company are experiencing
a good demand for better grades of carpets and furnishings. Mr.
Plum says that business has turned out fairly good this year,

Joseph Fredericks & Co. are furnishing throughout the elegant
new steamer St. Paul, just completed by the Union Iron Works in
this city for the Alaska trade. Quite a number of good sized orders
keep this house busy.

Coulter Brothers, the rattan furniture dealers, are making a rattan
casket, which will be thoroughly tested in a practical manner by a
local undertaking firm. The bottom will be of poplar. A crown-
ing cover will fit all around the top in a ledge, thus rendering it an
easy matter to remove it. The handles are to be of rattan, and will
be made either stationary or drop. The casket will be shaped like
the ordinary metallic article, but will be many times lighter and
easier to handle. For the present it will be used for transferring
bodies to the undertaking rooms, but the manufacturers believe that
in the course of a short time rattan caskets will be used for burial
purposes. Golden Gate.



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AROUND AND ABOUT.

,OLLD you take up the very latest
idea? Then cover your bathroom,
walls, ceiling and floor, every
inch of it, with oil cloth. This is
a plan that has aroused much
enthusiasm, and the oil clothed
bathroom is now exceedingly cor-
rect. Oil cloth is less expensive
than tiling, and even easier to
keep clean. It is made nowadays
in so many patterns that every-
one's tastes can be suited, and,
though those that have never seen a bathroom decked in
this manner may not be inclined to think so, a bathroom
that from top to toe, as it were, is of oil cloth, is a very
artistic affair.

The oil cloth chosen should be of a pattern that closely
resembles tiling, and it is best to varnish it thoroughly.
One of the prettiest designs in the market — a design, by
the vs^ay, that is used in several well known New York
houses — is a white ground with a blue figure. The
border is of the " Wall of Troy " variety. Another good
pattern is of green and white.

7Tn English genius, who calls himself a shop starter or
boomer, describes his methods in a London paper as
follows! " I have been a shop-starter now for a decade,
and have got to be fairly well known in my business. I
have given the push-off to many hundreds of businesses.
Queer profession ? Well, I suppose it is, but I'm a neces-
sary quantity, judging by my engagements. How is it
done ? You must have the shop fitted attractively, and
see that it is on the right side of the road, and boom it
thoroughly. Nothing so important as having your shop
on the right side of the road, that is to say, the side on
which the most pedestrians pass. And that's the sunny
side. In streets running from north to south the east side
is the best, while those stretching east and west the north
side is the best. Many a capable business man has failed
for no other reason than that he has not paid proper atten-
tion to the question of the side of the road. A shop can-
not be too well lit; the brighter the light the greater the
attraction, and here is presented a curiosity in things
human, for when people see a brightly lighted shop they
will gather round it like moths, and very often won't move
away until their pockets are burnt. Everything in the
way of fittings should be made particularly attractive ;
neither glaring nor offensive to the eye, but just sufficient-
ly effective. The thing is to draw attention to the win-
dow, and prominence given to any other feature detracts
from that and is a mistake. After all, the window is the
main thing.

" There are many methods of calling attention to a
newly opened shop, some of them suitable in one neigh-
borhood and some in another. Not a bad spec, is the en-
gaging of a band to play on the opening night of, say, a
grocer's shop in a working district. It wouldn't do,
though, in a middle-class neighborhood. I pushed off
successfully in Nottingham a little while ago a grocer's
shop on these lines, and the band played for the first four



Saturdays at a cost of ;;{^10, but a good connection had
been built up before the fourth Saturday came around,
notwithstanding the comparative failure of one or two
other similar businesses in the neighborhood. I started a
business in Leeds once for a young firm, and got them to
give away a handsome dinner service worth four guineas
to the customer who presented at the end of the first
month the greatest number of checks, which were given
away with every article worth sixpence or more. It sent
the business up safely. But on one occasion the police in
another town interfered with this idea, claiming that it was
a lottery. That did more to advertise the business than
the service itself, the gift of which got through all right.

" A cheesemonger's I started in a similar way, only I
gave away six eggs with every pound of bacon for the first
week. It brought the people from every corner of the
district. In Blandford I opened a cigar and tobacco shop
for a young married couple, and got a connection together
for them by selling ounce packets of tobacco at half price
for the first week. An enterprising London drapery sales-
man took it into his head to open a country public, and he
commanded almost instantaneous success by giving away
half-ounce twists of tobacco with every glass of ale — my
suggestion — for a month. The second week he augmented
this gift with a pin cushion for the customer to take home
to his wife, which put the lady on good terms with her
husband and ' The Romping Kitling.' I've told you quite
enough. There's my card."

\A ANY retail dealers seem to be possessed with the danger-
ous and erroneous idea that incandescent electric
lamps, such as are used in stores, diffuse no heat, and may
therefore be placed near or in close contact to inflammable
fabrics without fear of igniting them. This is a great
mistake. As is well known, the carbon filament of the
lamp is a substance offering great resistance to the passage
of the current, and the products of this resistance are light
and heat. It is an instance of the translation of one form
of energy into another. It is not, however, so generally
known that the light produced is after all only a small
percentage of the energy thus manifested — some 5 or 6 per
cent, only at the most. It is true that the lamp when
working is not comparable with aflame or naked light, but
at the same time the heat evolved is such as may lead to
ignition, and several serious fires in stores have been
caused in this way.

I N buying an Oriental rug one can discriminate between
the imitation and genuine, not by the color or pattern,
which may be copied, but by a careful examination to see
if each stitch is knotted. If the stitch is knotted and it is
impossible to pull it out, the rug is genuine Turkish,
whether the warp is cotton or wool, but if one can pull the
stitch out it is imitation, no matter how closely color and
pattern follow the original. The manner of testing the
quality of the rug is as follows: A live coal is dropped on
the rug and allowed to burn a little. When it is removed,
a yellowish mark will be left. If this can be brushed off
with the fingers, leaving the original colors unaltered, it
is a sure proof of the genuineness of the rug. It is neces-
sary, however, for one to be a connoisseur in rugs in order
to be able to discriminate between the qualities of rugs of
various countries, and to understand the age of the rug



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from the intensity of lustre. Some of the rugs which find
their way here have been damaged, but so skillfully re-
stored that to the eye of the uninitiated they seem in per-
fect condition. Many of these have been " cropped " to
remove signs of wear, which reduces not only the richness
and depth of the pile, but affects the durability of the rug
as well. Damaged spots are also frequently touched up
with water colors and a fine brush — a deception easily dis-
covered if the colors are wiped over with a soft cloth some-
what moistened.

T~HE rag carpet, after many years, has returned. It is
once again fairly popular, and the rags that for a
quarter of a century have been going to the ragman are now
being treasured up, since, if they are of wool, they are
almost worth their weight in gold. Why the rag carpet
ever did go out of style it is hard to determine, and its
reappearance is not difficult to understand. Properly
put together and made of a good assortment of rags,
it is exceedingly pretty, and withal easy to manufacture,
all the knack needed being the skill necessary to cut the
rags into strips, sew these together in lengths and wind
them into a ball. For a small sum the rag carpet weaver
does the rest.

Bathroom and study rugs are the chief uses of the rag
carpet of to-day, and it is not so much rag carpets, in fact,
as it is rag carpet rugs. The rag carpet rug is not large,
as a rule. Six feet by 3 would be quite an extraordinary
size. The idea is to have quite a number of them, and
these much smaller.

They clean easily and wear like iron. These facts es-
pecially commend them. Then, too, there is much socia-
bility in their making. A rag carpet party is a jovial
event, and a "function" that, long neglected, is coming
in again once more. The girls meet of an afternoon and
sew rags until 5 or 5:30. Then the men, especially asked
for this hour, begin to drift in, and there is afternoon tea.
It is the modernizing of the old time " sewing bee," and it
works marvelously well as an amusement.

TT CORRESPONDENT of a Western paper tells this story:
" In an Illinois city of about 20,000 I recently spent
a day. While there I called on an old friend who owns
the largest carpet store in the place. As I went in the
front door of his place of business I caught a glimpse of
my friend flying out the back door, and before I had
time to ask what it meant a well dressed woman came in,
and, stepping up to one of the clerks, inquired for my
friend. The clerk politely told her he was out, and that
he did not know when he would be back. The lady re-
marked that she would come again. She was hardly out-
side when the back door opened and my friend came in
and greeted me cordially. ' Well,' he laughed, ' I suppose
you would like to know what possessed me to run from a
woman. You see she isn't an ordinary woman, but an ad-
vertising solicitor for programmes for benefit perform-
ances, church sociables and that kind of things. She is
such an awful stayer that once she gets hold of you you're
a gone goose, and the only thing you can do is to fight for
a small space. She is a terror and no mistake. Why, '
he went on, ' not long ago a certain merchant here decided
that he would not be bullied into taking ads. by her any
longer, so the next time she came to him he flatly said no.



She was not a bit discouraged though. It was about 11
o'clock when she first saw him, and she stayed and talked
to him until 12. Then he started to go home to dinner,
and as she had her carriage (here she offered to make up
for the way she had bothered him by taking him home.
It was all in the game, however, for when they reached
his home, she got out and and announced her intention of
going in to see his wife. From her she managed to get an
invitation to dinner. She went back to the store with that
man. He was so mad he would hardly speak to her, and
finally in sheer desperation gave her an ad to get rid of
her. Now do you wonder I run when I see her coming?



A FACSIMILE OF BLABON'S INLAID LINOLEUM.

IN this number, opposite page 8, will be found a repro-
duction in colors of a pattern of the Geo. W. Blabon
Company's new inlaid linoleum. This colored print shows
the method of joining the inlaid sections, which method
is claimed to insure the firmest amalgamation of the cork
mash. The Blabon Company show several very appro-
priate and attractive designs, which can be seen at their
offices in Philadelphia and New York.



Chicago,
June 9.



CHICAGO CARPET NOTES.

Max Gross, manager of Alexander H. Revell & Co. 's
carpet department, bought very largely at the first of the
New York auction sales.

O. W. Richardson & Co. have opened a re-
tail showroom on the first floor of the building
in which they are situated at Wabash avenue and Congress
street.

The Illinois Wall Paper Company suffered a loss of
$50,000 in the burning of its three story factory at 4013
to 4023 Wentworth avenue last Saturday morning. In-
surance, $25,000.

Among the Eastern roadmen in town recently were
Frank TineUi, of J. & J. Dobson; C. G. Beattie, of Robert
Beattie & Sons, and J. W. Patterson, of Reune Martin &
Sons.

Charles Hafkemeyer, who has the Cochrane line here,
has just returned from a trip to St. Louis and other South-
western points. He reports a good business and will now
give his attention to Illinois and Wisconsin towns.

Mandel Brothers have opened their new addition at
State and Madison streets and the show windows now
blaze with the colors of artistic decorations. Work is still
going on in the upper stories, two additional stories being