The Billboard 1905-01-14: Vol 17 Iss 2 (1905-01-14)

The Billboard Robbins’ (Frank A.) Shows......Passaic, N. J. Robinson’s (Happy Bob) ......Bald Knob, Ark. Robinsen’s (Jobn) ...........Terrace Park, O. Rock Bros.’ Shows ..... ...+-Picketts, Wis. Rocky Mountain Nel) ..........Rusubero, Pa. Sawwell’s, D., P. & M. Show..... Houston, Tex. Seibel Bros.’ Shows ........-Watertown, Wis. Sella & Downs’ .........---++0+55 Topeka, Kan. b t., Big City Circus.. Sei a shied 4 Fort Wayne, Ind. Schaffer & Spry Bros.’ ........ Portswouth, O. Blhver Bros.’ 2... ccccccccecscsccses Acme, Mich. Sipe’s New Shows ........+-...-Kokome, lund. Smith’s Imperial Circus ...... -Buckstown, Pa. Smith's (Prof. my). oscenceces er came = Snyder Bros.’ & Dowker ........Havana, Stocle’s, AL, Big Shows... Vandergrift Hts., Pa. Stevens & Mussman....804 High, St. Louis, Mo. Stewart Family Show ........Ft. Wayne, Ind. Bem Bros.’ ....cccccccccccccsces eoeend eu route Tanner Bros.’ RK. R. Shows ....-Lincoln, Neb. Terry's U. T. C. Shows ....... Litthe sivux, Ia. Todd’s, E. H., New Era Shows. ..Roudlvuse, Ill. Tonner’s Hippodrome ...... West Beriu, N. J. Tuttle’s Olympic .......--...-Linnerville, Pa. Uden’s (W. J.) Wild West.... Vau Vravken’s Shows ..... ° ° -Seutt, . Wallace’s Shows .....-.--Scccccges Pero, Ind. Walsh Sisters’ Show .......----Ohio City, O. Ward's Shuws ..........-++-Plymouth, Mass. Washburn’s Dog & Pony Shows..Puaterson, N. J. Welsh Bros.’ <onuee eepseocess D r, . ntermute Bros.’ .......-...--Hebrvn, Wis. wines oe rr oe Baneroft, Mich. MIDWAY CCMPANIES. Arnold-Hutchin Shows ..........Portland, Ore. Cash Carnival Co. ...... .-.-.-St. Paul, Minn. : Co. of New York Fxcelsior Carnival d ’s, La Belle, Show....72-74 Piu St. Fatima’s, ’ New ‘York’ Olty Flash & Wood's Carnival Oo... .378 Bons ea Fox’s, Rolla, Show ..........Terre Haute, Ind. Great Gaskill Shows Tn ame i Ga. ritt’s, “1 Exposition Shows angestatn ™ Washington, Ind. lectric Fountain. .210 Seott Ave., or Ft. Scott, Kan. Monarch Catuival Co. .........-OCovington, Ind. Monumental Carnival Co.....Hot Springs, Ark. Jethro Almonds Bible Show....Albemarie, N. C Patterson-Brainerd Carnival Co., Beaumont, Tex. Pierce Amusement Co.. bux 54, Statesville, N. C. Robinson, Billy ope ae a Ky. -Millican M ras Co....... —Piedmont Park, Atlanta, Ga. Tennessee Carnival =e Pappy r « der’s, Will BH. Carnival Co...... y von, O., “she . : and ge — Pa. Westlake’s Carnival of Novelties, 222 ° 128th ‘st. peethsaseesconaabee New York City Wright’s Amusement Co......--Savannak, Ga. CIRCUS GOSSIP. Wm. Sells was in Columbus most of last week. J. M. J. Kane is enjoying a tour through Mexico. Chas. Seip writes he is resting in Evansville, Ind. E. M. Burk is with the Southern Carnival Company. Wm. Folkner: Adolph Katz, Anita, La. W.-E. Franklin was in Chicago for three days last week. Ed. Cullen & W. E. Ferguson spent last week in St. Louis. Fred Busey takes a car with the Barnum & Bailey Shows. B. E. Wallace and C. E. Corey spent Jan. § and 9 in Cincinnati. Chick Bell is to have the candy stands with the Wallace Show next season. Dave G. Pollock is ticket seller and makes the announcements with the Schult & Mead Show. Messrs. Pugh & Pugh, of Toledo, Ohio, will be the auctioneers in charge of the Forepaugh-Sells sale. Mr. Ed. Franklin, though still weak, has been discharged by his doctors, who proneunce him cured. A. H. McPhail will be a member of the advance force of the Barnun & Bailey Shows for the season of 1905. Dulaney’s Famous Show is being reorganized and will start out next season with a larger show than ever. Alfred Witzenhaussen, assistant treasurer of the Ringling Brothers’ Shows, is enjoying a visit in Grand Rapids, Mich. Mr. W. W. Cole arrived in Columbus last Wednesday and will remain until after the sale of the Forepaugh-Sells property. Dick Jeffres and Doc Nolan are now the proprietors of the American House annex in Columbus. They say business is big. Ernest Cooke and T. L. Evans are in Columbus assisting Messrs. Cole and Sells in miaking arrangements for the auction. Rocky Mountain Hank (H. E. Walker) has signed with MHulburd’s Wild West to work in the arena and double in concert. Spencer Delevan, boss hostler with the Ringling Brothers, was in Chicago last week and purchased three carloads of draft horses. John H. Rice is mapping out his territory for next summer. John will act as general agent for the Hargreaves Railroad Shows. Mile. Amy, sword swallower, formerly of the Forepaugh-Sells Show, has signed with the J. T. McCaddon Show for the European tour. Prof. Hank Snider writes that he opened his Winter Circus Pavilion, Dec. 22, to packed house. He has booked some good attractions. Messrs. C. Lee Williams, Frank E. Tate and John Havlin of St. Louis, were in Chicago, Jan. 5, in the interests of the Hagen beck Show. The Petit Family have signed for Please write to their third season with the Gollmar Shows. They will appear in a new act besides their acrobatic work. Sam McCracken, general contractor for the Ringling Brothers’ Shows, spent the holidays with his relatives on his farm near Kansas City, Mo. W. E. Deacon will have charge of the cook tents with the Wallace Show next season. ‘‘Deac.’’ made a great record with the Forepaugh-Sells Show. Jas. M. Robinson, formerly agent of the Hobson Show, writes that he is now located at Lecompte, La., where he has erected a billposting plant. Wm. Althers will open a dog and pony circus in north St. Louis about Feb. 1. Forty dogs and thirty ponies comprise the show. The prospects look bright. Jerry M’Givan, E. L. Brannan and Bert Bowers of the VanAmberg Shows, passed through Cincinnati last week on their way to Columbus to attend the Forepaugh-Sells sale. Chester White, manager of Ringling Brothers’ black top, who makes his home in Baraboo, spent the holidays in Chicago, as did Sid Rubian, steward of the Ringling lunch car. Nick Petit, the twenty-four hour man of the Ringling Brothers’ Shows, who heretofore has made his home in Minneapolis, has taken up his residence on the north side, Chicago. ° Mrs. W. H. Harris will leave Chicago, Jan. 17, for a tour around the world, and before returning to America will spend some time at Carlsbad, Germany, and take the waters. W. C. St. Clair, the past two seasons opposition agent with the Great Wallace Shows, writes that he has been engaged to manage the advertising car with the Gentry Brothers’ (No, 2) Show. James Jay Brady, general press representative of the Ringling Brothers’ Shows, went to Baraboo Saturday, 7, where he will be busily engaged at the main office for the next few weeks. Herbert, The Frogman, writes that he has not lost a week since the Main Show closed and is meeting with success in the northwest. He has signed with the Wallace Show for next season. Walter A. Shannon has the privileges with Norris & Rowe next season. He has just bought a seventy-foot Pullman from C. N. Thompson, and is in Columbus looking for other circus property. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Gore, of the Sells-Downs Shows for the past three seasons, are with Trousdale Brothers’ Joshua Simpkins Co. Mrs. Gore is playing soubrette parts and “doing her character dances. Col. M. L. Clark, of Clark’s Combined Show, will rebuild his winter quarters near Alexandria, La., which were burned a few weeks ago. Contracts are let and work will be commenced at once. A new ring barn, built for the Hargreaves Shows, at Chester, Pa., is a commodious and inviting structure and is now being used by a number of well-known performers for breaking in stock. Robt. E. Kane, the well-known show talker, hes closed a very prosperous season and is now resting at Hot Springs, Ark. He will place his show with one of the large circuses for the coming season. Contracts aggregating $3,000 have been awarded “McRae & Bursey, of Bridgeport, Conn., for repainting Barnum & Bailey's cars. The tableaux and wagons are being done by Barnum & Bailey’s own mechanics. W. H. Rice, general manager of the Great Alamo Shows, now touring the south, transacted business in Chicago Jan. 9, and was a caller at The Billboard office. Mr. Rice left Chicago Thursday night to rejoin the show in Texas. Col. H. E. Allott is figuring on making some extensive additions to his New Alhambra hotel, Chicago. A first-class Turkish bath parlor will be one of the acquisitions. The New Alhambra is proving a veritable gold mine for Bunk. The Ringling colony in Chicago had expected to entertain Happy Jack Snellen. superintendent of canvas, during the holidays, but were disappointed, Mr. Snellen being prevented from leaving his home in Baraboo by reason of illness in his family. Bob Taylor, master of transportation of the Ringling Brothers, is a very busy man at Baraboo these days, working on some new ears for the cireus. The Ringling Brothers are the first circus organization to build their own cars on the premises of the show. Sun Brothers, Jones’ Railroad Shows, Spark’s Virginia Show, William Todt Shows. Orton Brothers, James Shelby, Teets Brothers and two or three carnival companies are all in Florida at present. Each report good busi ness, considering the limited territory to op erate in. Rolla Fox writes that after selling out his one ring circus he opened a vaudeville and moving picture show and is playing through Wisconsin to big business, making one and three-day stands, carrying seven people. In the spring he will open a vaudeville company under canvas. The roster of the annex department of Jones’ Railroad Shows is as follows: D. H, Lano, manager and license adjuster: E. S. Ardell, tickets; Mrs. E. S. Ardell, snakes; Mrs. Doc Lano, monkeys and birds; Cudjo, half man and half animal; Tazewell, untamable lion. There are two cages of animals and Lano’s London Punch and Judy Show. King Menelik, of Abyssinia, knowing President Roosevelt's fondness for big game, recently sent him a zebra, a lioness, two ostriches (warranted to hide their heads in sand on slight provocation), and a pair of husky baboons. Having Congress on his hands the president side-stepped the menayerie and turned it over to the National Zoological Park. Segundo Garcinetti, of the Marvelous Gareinetti Family, Cireo Pubillones, Havana, Cuba, writes that Christmas eve they gave a show at midnight and turned people away. After the show Mr. Pubillones invited all the members of his company to a banquet, and they join in saying that it was the best time they ever had, On New Year’s day all members of the circus returned the compliment and invited Mr. Pubillones to their banquet, which was held in his honor. Among his Christmas presents, Mr. Kerry Meagher, treasurer of the Ringling Brothers’ Shows, prizes highly a combination meerschaum pipe and cigar holder, sent him by George Holloway, of The Holloway Trio, formerly with the Ringling Show, now touring the continent, from Prague, Austria A cameo profile of Mrs. Meagher embellishes the bowl of the pipe. Notes from DeMack’s Big Show: We are now in our tenth week out this season, touring Indian Territory and Kan-as, and business has been good. Everyone with the show is in the best of health. We laid off for Christmas at Mr. DeMack’s home and all en joyed themselves to a finish. Mr. DeMack made everybody feel at home and gave each a nice present at the close. We still have sixteen weeks to fill in before opening under canvas. Mr. DeMatk has purchased a new Pullman car for the company and intends to put out one of the best shows of its kind this summer. Notes from The Great Floto Shows: Sig Robert Zierke, bandmaster of the Great Floto Show band, is in Denver for the winter, and is gaining many friends by introducing a budget of cornet and trumpet solos. He is signing musicians for the coming season, and will have one of the finest concert or chestras carried by any tented organization. Mr. Ted Garvell, late of the Ringling Brothers: E. G. Bricey, of the Forepaugh-Sells: Frank Russomanno, of Ellery’s Royal Italian Band and many other artists selected from the best musical organizations in America have been secured. The band will consist of thirty members. WEEKLY LIST vt visi KisUTORS. Advertisements under this heading will be published weekly at the uniform rate of ten cents per issue, or $4.00 per year. ARKANSAS. Conway—J. F. Clark, Box 92. CALIFORNIA. Enreka—W. H. Matthews, 636 2d st. Sacramento—W. A. Caswell & Sons. GEORGIA. Atlunta—M. P. Roughton, Box 554. ILLINOIS. Chicago—John A. Clough, 42 Kiver st. East St. Louis—W. H. Desmar. 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Preparations for the merger of the various firme in the Show Printing Trust are now being actively pushed It is rumored that the proposed Show Printing Trust ts considering the advis ability of aequiring certain big billposting plants. EK. H. McCoy, of the National Show Print, accompanied by his wife and a party of friends will leave shortly for a trip around the world. Col. Wm. A. Bell and his son, Col. Cody Bell, of the Bell Show Print of Sigourney, Iowa, spent the holidays at Cody, Wyo., as guests of Buffalo Bill, on tinat TE RES