The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-01-31
FROM A TO LIZARD.
You Can Furnish Your Home for 500
Spend $4,000.

al have all along contended that the
medium grades of furniture could be man.
ufactured just as profitably on the Sound
as in the Eastern states" Mr.. Louis
Schoenfeld, president and manager of the
Standard Furniture Company, said last
evening to reporter for the PosT-INTEL-
LIGEgcER. 81 find by experience that I
was right. The very expensive grades
cannot be made with profit, but bedroom
sets in maple, ash and fir can be turned
out. Some of the work we have in our
establishment now compares with any
thing ever done in the East"
The speaker led the way to the spacious
salesroom on the second floor and exhib-
tied two rows of handsome bureaus and
desks. (which is which 2" he asked The
reporter promptly made a guess. and it
was wrong.
Nobody could tell the difference, he
said. compasionately. THE work is abso-
lute!y the same. have, as / said, always
been in favor of home manufactures, and
| find that they are more satisfactory in
many ways besides the quality of their
work"
The salesrooms of the Standard Furni-
ture Company occupy three floors the width
of two stores, together with warerooms in
the basement and a large warehouse.
There is display of furniture that would
deplete the exchecquer of q rich man.
There Is nothing in the line of furniture
that the firm doesn't carry.
There Is a Turkish couch that Is worth
$50" Mr.. Schoenfeld said, pointing to a
luxurious sofa upholstered in imported
wool tapestry. "Over there Is a sofa that
you can buy for s15." The intervening
figures in the scale of prices are all repre-
sented. An immense assortment of wilton
rug touches, leather touches, parlor sets.
Turkish easy chairs, divans and easy
chairs. TIC man accustomed to a stool
behind desk the view would be posi-
lively intoxicating.
The top floor is filled to the ceiling with
parlor furnishings and hall racks. The
latter range in value from 81 10 sl25. There
is jewel of a reception chair of solid
san Domingo mahogany, inlaid with
ivory, tulip wood and satin wood. Mr..
Schoenfeld sat in the chair with easy
grace. and casually observed that Its price
was $50. There are parlor suits of mahog-
any, white maple, bird's-eye maple, white
oak and antique oak. The prospect of re-
ception chairs Of English, French and old
Spanish designs, with old Roman chairs,
shaped like punch bowls, and old Flemish.
with their conventional curves, is dizzying,
. Here Is another item in parlor furnish
Ing, the superintendent went on. 1t was
table with tag marked 1915" 1t was
of mahogany, with q satin-wood border.
inlaid with design of satin wood flowers.
with cherubs flying around with their
ivory heads supported by satin-wood
wings.
reception chair, valued at SOS. is up-
holstered with French valour worth SIG
yard.
On the second floor is collection OF side
boards and chifonierres that represents
heavy outlay. They are banked by extern
sion tables, as cheap as IS each and as high
as si25. One of the latter is massive ma
hogany. Ii extends to length of fifteen
feet
In the library department is fun assert
ment of desks made by the Indianapolis
Cabinet Company, which supplies the En-
glish and United States governments some
Of the hnesG Office desks made. James
Gordon Bennett has one like this" the
manager said, going down the line. John
WanamakeF writes on desk OF this kind
This is a copy of Mr.. Rockefeller's " and so
on. The lot runs down 10 the office desk
IN use in free intelligence offices.
Every mans end is sleep" Mr.. Schoen-
field observed. losing himself in a maze Of
bedroom sets. AT first be sleeps in q
cradle. There are hundred designs and
hundred pieces, according TO the wealth
and taste of his parents. Later he can
tackle solid mahogany bedsted with a
Ilne hair mattress. or one of ash with q
cheap mattress of excelsior. according to
his own wealth. Ash is by far the most
used wood ia furniture factories"
An endless array of ladies' desks, tables
and workplaces, parior cabinets, center
tables and library tables, whatnots and
mantels IN all the woods and brass and
marble, and a shining assortment of mir
rors nils out stock that is wonderfully
complete. Ii is supplemented with fold
ing beds ami combination toilet stands
that make 1t possible for q man to furnish
room completely with two pieces, if be
Is wiling TO SIR on the bed.
'oI course we could render pretty bic
blit Il we had carte tldache i'm furnishing 3
house Tor one Of the 400 Mr.. Schoenfeld.
said on the elevator, but. on the other
hand, II newspaper man came 10 US we
could put him in the way of buying fur
niture for aouse for $50. Ii is possible
TO put IN carpets, furniture, cooking uten-
sis and weeks provisions for 500. Just
think OF II, snd contemplate the wonder
fal strides OF progress.