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Hardwood Record — Veneer & Panel Section 



October 25, 1921 



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REPRESENTATIVES: 



GRAND RAPIDS. MICH. . .F. K. TINKHAM 



CHICAGO, ILL G. M. PALMER 



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Rod£s Lumber & Veneer Co. 



27 Years at Marshfield, Wis. 



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 of business. That is something furniture men as well as all other 

 classes of industry are watching fearfully. 



On the other hand, as originally stated, the preparations for the 

 January exposition are being carried forward on a larger scale 

 than ever before. in July the six big exposition buildings proved 

 inadequate to care for the demands of the exhibitors. Numerous 

 concerns which desired to show here were unable to secure space 

 in the buildings. Some of them found convenient store spaces to 

 lease for the period but this is not a satisfactory method. Many 

 concerns were unable to show at all and a general demand was 

 made for more adequate accommodations. 



New Furniture Exhibit Block 



C. O. Skinner, who was the "daddy** of the Manufacturers' 

 Building and of the Furniture Temple, was quick to get on the 

 job. He finally put across the deal necessary to convert the Gil- 

 bert block into the seventh exposition building. This building is 

 situated at the head of Monroe avenue in the very heart of the 

 business district of Grand Rapids. It has previously been used 

 as an office building above the first floor while this first floor has 

 most recently been a retail furniture store. 



The building is six stories in height, 62 by 120 feet. In the 

 scheme of remodeling for exhibition purposes, the north half of the 

 upper stories fronting on Monroe avenue will continue to be leased 

 for office purposes and the south end of the ground floor w^ill be 

 converted into a modern cafeteria. The balance of the building 

 will be for furniture exposition purposes exclusively. This will 

 give approximately 37,500 square feet of floor space for exposi- 

 tion purposes. 



The entire space has already been leased. The entire second floor 

 has been leased for a term of eight years to the Orinoco Furni- 

 ture Company and the Maxwell-Ray Company, tw^o concerns which 

 make the highest grades of furniture shown in the Grand Rapids 

 market or manufactured anywhere outside of Grand Rapids. 



The movement to convert the McMuUen building into still an- 

 other exposition building has been under way since the July show^. 

 No announcement has yet been made that these plans have ma- 

 tured but such an announcement is expected at any time. The 

 building is considerably larger than the Gilbert and has for many 

 years been used as a retail furniture store. It is located only a 

 block from the Gilbert and would need practically no remodeling 

 to make it serviceable. 



Still again another large building has for some time been under 

 consideration as a furniture exposition building and while nothing 

 has yet come of that plan it may develop if it should appear that 

 the two additional buildings w^ill still be inadequate to meet the de- 

 mands of those desiring to show in the Grand Rapids market. 



It is the disposition of the Grand Rapids manufacturers to con- 

 tinue the manufacture and sale of furniture at as near cost figures 

 as possible and still make certain there is no actual loss. It is 

 by this means that they have kept running during this period of 

 depression and they realize that the time has not yet come in the 

 general run of business when they can advance prices enough to 

 return a profit and still get the business. The January show will, 

 without doubt, show rock bottom prices again, many new^ designs 

 and an effort to get the business in sufficient quantity to carry them 

 through the balance of the winter in the hope that spring will 

 show a general improvement of business in all lines and give them 

 a certainty of capacity operation henceforth. 



Evansville Furniture Maker Marries 



Edward Karges, vice-president of the Karges Furniture Company 

 at Evansville, Ind., and Mrs. Evelyn Elles Cook, also of that city, 

 were united in marriage at a hotel in Chicago on Saturday, October 

 I 5, and after a bridal tour of several weeks in the east, will go to 

 Evansville to reside. Mr. Karges is well and favorably known to 

 the lumber interests of Indiana and other western states. He is 

 chairman of the executive committee of the Evansville Furniture 

 Manufacturers* Association that arranged a furniture market for 

 that city twice a year. 



