Billboard advertising (May 1895)

EHIbowd f gvgrt TBhfl. j. p. ntry eeu posl.n» >'ME ALIA pears on the Erst page, si prominent bill posters mil an energetic and per- ■ of vast experience. He New York City in |S S7 . has : bills since he was fourteen ■ of age. He worked for the late John Mahon, Paulding, when he was "Ross of all the Bill Posters, and was the first man 10 post a sheet of papir for Reagm & Clark, when they started ill business in New York.City. When still a buy. be was -placedilu charge of the paste brigade of-Johif Murray's Circus, and was with fh* Kst paste brigade lhat traveled in a car of their own, with The Great London Circus and Sanger's litrier, general agent Buffalo Bill's Wild West; Pete Spier, foreman for Reagan & Clark. He left the bill posting business to go with the late Claude DeHaven, at Tony Pastor's Theatre, 585 Broadway. He then took the road as agent for Jas •r Jake Abeile. on Bth street. New Yi He was with Haverly at the 5th Avenue r a while as agent, and was agent for Jack Hamilton, at the first is opened in Harlem, "The it Morris Theatre.'" He was agent MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. April aid, 1S95. Jas. H. H ennegan Esq. Dear Sir:— Thanks for your letter calling my attention to your paper. Enclosed yot will find clipping from last night's Min neapolis Journal. We are very busy ant are crowded with commercial work. 1 posters to my scheme for getting plentj J M. J. Kane, editor of Ciicinnat ATaiic and Drama, and also Advertising Manager of L. W. Washburn's Great Al- lied Shows, is the Sole Traveling Agent lor BlLLUOaRD ADVERTISING. Any con- ■ itself, and tracts made a a fulfilled to the s publication will be strictly adhered I. Ctongh, the reliable distributer, raught out The Tuaedo Company low conducts the business under his name with headquarters at 647 in Ave., Chicago, IBs times, which has been used by Paul Dresser in advertising "The Green Goods Man," has been suppressed by the Secret Service officials and the entire slack on the same witu dead walls and leuces- The brst of all advertising media is the The work on the b.il boards and daubs billboards. A close second is found in ■3 placed smooth and even. Our work on distributed I boards looks like a picture frame. The clean—no ragged paper any- .V* employed two ex.ru wagons for third place. The newspapers area n.doiog nothing but strip- good fourth audscieotific windowdisplay :rs, charts, novels. 50k thee the . S fro a rfejn si:Mc * very expensive. looking work very beneficial ti agents are commenting us. There are several cigar and patent medicine agents Try posters in the country. You will here, and they are slock on the bill pos- be able to detect the results beyond all Frank P. Colby, the bill poster and distributer at Manchester, N. H.. also controls the Baggage Transfer Co. LOOKOUT FOR HIM. A party calling himself Henry Martin, and representing that he is contracting agent for Sells &. Rentfrow's Circus, has by the sharper, who is in no way con- s' display. Even the newspapers are doubt or peradventnre enting on our artistic work. This 'jolly"-it is reality. This is the FAIR NEWS. Exposition which will be held at Atlanta September 18th, end closing ■ it, is going lo be a far lar- re imposing undertaking than the North even dreams of. It is simply gigantic in scope, and all-embrac- Rocltaway Beach 1 during this time he was the first to post bills on the roofs on the lines of the Elevated Railroads in New York City, covering the chimneys ingle sheets and the sides or with three sheets and with O'Mealia & S pea re, aud on separa- tion Irom Speire. ran the business alone aud afterward formed a partnership with A. P. Riieman, under the name ofKike- man & O'Mealia, and npon the death of his old partner, bought out his interest and has run the business iu an up-to-date r^-Tlr O'Mealia has lately issued a handy- list of the protected bill boards owned and controlled by him in Jersey City, Bayonne, West Hoboheo. Union Hill and surrounding towns, which shows that Jersey City has more boards and desir- able locations for advertising than any city of its sire in the United States. Mr. O'Mealia'is quite a society man as the following will show: Member of Improved Order of Red Men; Past Grand Chief Ranger and Present Deputy Si preme Chief Ranger of New Jersey ARTISTIC WORK. Some Excellent Bill Posting That is Being Done In This City. FROM AUSTRALIA. Woodlands Road, AshfieTd, N S. W , Anstralia,'March 4 lh, 1S95. Dear Sir: Through the kindness of a gentlemin here, I have seen a copy of the New Year Number of "Billboard Advertising." which is admirably printed from cover to cover, and reSects credit on those A OOOD ARGUMENT. willing to concede that an illustrated ad- vertisement is more valuable than a pliin descriptive. The reason is perfectly plain. It is becaose Hi. much 1 , appea 3 some extra large advertising 1 and also another man doing work with paint and I seemed to be (he 1 The rosters and Fair Bills pnblished by the Donaldson Lithographing Co. are the finest specimens of lithographic art ever offered to the trade. Breslauer, the owner of nearly all illetin boards in the dry, (in con- n with the theatres), happe ,f He had been in the business twenty-four d talk. Sells Bros.' hill posters y Lodge I, B. P. O Elks, and District Dep- uty of New Jersey, under Grand Exalted Ruler Win. H Friday., He is Treasurer of the Associated Bill Posters' Association oftbe United States arid Canada. years, si of the uiu this citv, and is am M. F, Sprenger, the king of Pougb- keepsie, thinks Eiij.6oard Advertis. inc. is bright, newsy and up to dale. W. IL Steiubrenner. whose office is at 313 Vine Street, Cincinnati. O , conducts a thoroughly reliable distributing agency He covers all suburbs iu Hamilton Co tion of the United Slates and Canada, S stage from (he roof whichever would through which large amounts of foreign suit them best} some of the men stating work is secured. He has now in bis em that their long-handled brushes ploy twelve men, besides his painters, suited to the work Eventually, arrange- lars, but at times he is compelled^ gable covered with Sells Bros.'bilb by a largely increase the force. Mr. Breslauer man named Tnrner, employed by Roff; thoroughly believes in oewspapers as an the brush he used being one ol Sells advertising mediuB', and especia'ly when Bros.'long-handled ones, borrowed for connected with his own. He says that theoccasion. Hoping that you will give nearly all ol the Eastern business that « SP«« in jour excellent journal, conies to him, so much is allowed for (be ""d wish you success, I am, papers and so much for the bulletins, and Yours truly, when they have them bnih ihey have the W. R. best on earth. As will be noticed through Editor Billboard Advertising. 189s is now getting . and the prospects < brilliant. Everything points to a ison of unsurpassed prosperity, and e number of Fairs this year will be held for a whole decad NOTICE TO SECRETARIES. Send In yonr Fair dales. The Jane issue of BittBOAsn Advertising will contain a complete hat of all Fair to be held in 1895. So. please get in line.