January 10, 1922 



Hardwood Record — Veneer & Panel Section 



47 



Two Coe Roller Veneer Dryers 



in tlie plant of the Pearl City \'eneer Co. at Jamestown, N. Y. 

 The excellent quality of the panels produced in this plant 

 speaks well for these dryers and their other Coe Machinery. 



It is noted for: — Its satisfactory service; ffs 

 labor sai'ing; The high quality of its product. 



THE COE MANUFACTURING COMPANY 



PAINESVILLE, OHIO, U. S. X. 



We build all the machinery for a J'eneer ^lill 



first and then the exposition building floors, and this practice seems 

 to be followed this year; so that the exposition floors have not 

 reported the number of buyers and the volume of business that 

 some of the local factories have reported. 



The Grand Rapids Market Association has done much to do 

 away with the distinction between the factories' show rooms and 

 the exhibitors in the exposition buildings, and this work is their 

 crowning achievement. The advance literature which the Market 

 Association sends out establishes in the dealer's mind the exposi- 

 tion buildings and the outside manufacturers so definitely and so 

 clearly that they are Identified with Grand Rapids as surely as are 

 the factories located in the city. 



One subject which everyone discusses more or less, but not as 

 yet very seriously, is the question of trade designations for furni- 

 ture made in part of a wood w^hich is used to describe the piece as 

 a whole; as, for example, the mahogany dresser which is not 

 entirely of mahogany. The consideration of this question by the 

 industry, eventually, was inevitable; but a certain bitter tang has 

 been injected into it at the present time by the ill-mannered and 

 corrupted activities of a professional irritant (acting in behalf of 

 an undisclosed client), w^ho has charged the whole furniture indus- 

 try, through a series of circulars, with a conspiracy to defraud the 

 public, because they have used in the designation of their product 

 the terms which, by general custom and practice, have been uni- 

 versal in the furniture trade throughout the United States and have 

 been followed by all the manufacturers and dealers engaged therein. 

 That there may have been some actual instances of fraud is not 

 improbable ; but w^e know^ of no instance in w^hich any manufac- 

 turer has deliberately perpetrated a fraud upon a dealer or has 

 sold any goods with the design and purpose of placing in the 

 hands of the dealer the means of perpetrating a fraud upon the 

 consumer. 



Vigilance Committee to Meet 



However, the questions of how^ a case, constructed principally 

 of mahogany or walnut and in part of other woods, shall be desig- 

 nated and the question of how veneers shall be designated, have 

 been raised and are being discussed at this Market. The National 

 Furniture Council has given consideration to this matter of trade 

 designation at its Convention at Atlantic City, in December, 1921. 

 and the Vigilance Committee of the Advertising Clubs of the World 

 devoted a meeting to the subject at Cleveland, Ohio, recently. This 

 Vigilance Committee is going to meet in Grand Rapids during the 

 third week of the present Market, to get the views of manufac- 

 turers and dealers who are here at the time; and there is every 

 reason to hope and believe that here and now is the time for this 

 disturbing matter to be entirely settled. 



So far as we can learn, the attitude of the dealers is one of entire 

 confidence in the manufacturers. They are all aware of the situa- 

 tion, but they are equally aware of the multitude of problems that 

 it presents to the manufacturer. There is no effort on their part 

 to attempt to decide the matter in advance of the decision the 

 manufacturers may arrive at, and so far we have yet to learn of 

 an instance of a dealer undertaking to specify or order in other 

 than the established trade terms of long standing. 



In the woods used in this Market there is no substantial change 



mahogany and walnut predominating as in the past, and with 



their usual combinations. Oak has not appeared in any quantity 

 in the lines where it has not had place in the past; but there is a 

 very considerable undertone of discussion concerning oak and its 

 possibilities and it is a fair prediction that at the next market there 

 will be some ventures in oak in the finest lines. 

 Concerning the Designs 



There are some very interesting and attractive designs in com- 

 binations of redwood burls and maple burls, hare wood, bird's eye 

 fCoutiniictI on page 50) 



YOU WILL not 

 appreciate the 

 Mengel grade and 

 the Mengel serv- 

 ice until you have 

 tried "something 

 just as good." But 

 will you not take 

 our word for it? 



Til FIiNGiiL Co?mw 



INCORPORATED 



Louisville. Ky. 



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