The billboard (June 1895)

A Monthly Resume Of An That Is New. Bright And Intirkting On The Boarbs. CINCINNATI, JUNE i, 1895. .fflggggTO Vol. Ill, No. FIFTH ANNUAL CONVENTION ■ OF TH iated Bi Association, L CADILL JULY 9, ■<•. II Mtf'n. iled to attend the fifth a oflbeAasociated Bill a. of the United Slates it the Hotel Cad- illac, Detroit Michigan. Tuesday, July 9!h Wednesday, Jul; loth, Thursday, July ml:, Friday, July 11th. It is expected that all members and delegates will report promptly at 11 o'clock noon, Tuesday, Julyolh, at the above named hotel. TSDBSDAV, July nth, 9 A. M. Business will be taken up in regular order, until noon. Adjourn for dinner until 3 p. bi., after which time business will be taken np in regular order nntil 5:35 p. m., when the convention will ad- journ for supper. Friday, July nth Through the courtesy of Mess. Walker & Company, Bill Posters, we will be en- tertained properly. A notice of same will be posted in "Committee Room," when the meeting is called to order. Trusting that everyone interested di- rectly or indirectly in outdoor display advertising as a medium, may find it to their interest to meet with us. Business of great importance to the association Inform the President if you inteud being present, before July ist so that the Hotel Cadillac may be officially notified of how many to cipect- Hotel Cadillac is one of the best hotels in the United States. Rate* as follows. Inside rooms, i to a bed, (1.50 per d >y. ■1 3 to a bed, f 3 00 per The f Tuesday, July, gtb, 1 a o'clock noon. The members and delegates will as- semble Id the committee room. Hotel Cadillac, at which hour the convention will be called to order. Alter the pre- >n of credentials of members and ;s and the reading of the minutes , adjournment :r will be taken until a o'clock. f, P.M. Posting Co., 2So Madison St:, Chicago. J. B-UAAU) CaKRoTX, Sec'y. 43 Beaver Street, Albany, N. Y ers. Printers, Theatrical Manage™, Circus ■y see fit a attend for the tising, and if possible to get a m idea of how our customer, hsv" treated, and what complaints they may have. At 5:30 p.m. adjourn for .upper. best if these groteiou altogether; but since, we presume, tbis is an impossibility, it would be well if whatever of art the science ofadvertisiog admits of could be introduced into our public placards For it is not, as some may imagine,'a matter of money fn England it ia true when of recent years a crusade against public advertiremenls of the kind we refer to has been in progress certain distinguished academicians have sold certain of their works, and allowed them to be reproduced and posted on every vacant board. Bnt in France, as in most things artistic, they arrange these matters better. H.. Jules Cheret, the most distinguished of Parisian affich- iers, does not earn in a year, tbough heis . incessantly at work, as much as was paid for the single picture of'Bubbles.'" It is essential that art posters, if they are . lo be common should be producible at a moderate price And such as a matter of fact is the case in Paris The elaborate gaily coljureu ajfuhcs whkJi cover the windows of the boulevard kiosquesof the French capital are the work 01 men who in a very real sense of tbe word are artists, and yet they are far from expens- ive Indeed the ecoiiomy necessitated by the conditions and aim of the art-poster The energetic bill poster and distributer of Findlay, Ohio, was born in Whitley, Ind. December Jtb, 1847, and went to Findlay, March i e th. 1883, in tbe employ Of tbe Opera Hou = e After two years' connection with the same, be took tbe advice of Mr. Waller Fisher, and Estab- lished a bill posting plant, fully deter- mined lo carry tbe venture to a success- ful issue. That be has succeeded in his. a, it is h, of its evolution. For instance, the fact thai a separate stone had to be engraved for each co'our used fo- printing his a/- fichts obiged M. Cheret to limit the number of bis colons. The'result is that he rarely naaa an* but tbe three . primary colours of red blue, and yellow I —"the three shrillest trumpcl-noies." : as he calls Ihrin. These limitations, however do built up a velous, < you will, board. ' > not prevent the delight of the pi which _ under the patrbm-ge of the great, but aa an envoy from trade to passers in the street— freeman'i Journal, Dublin, Irt- boarda, until, look when' can sot help bnt see a bill entire city ia wall fenced In with over three thousand feet of boards. ■fhtl," as be is familiarly called, is very popular with the advance boys and his many friends thougbont the country, Duktkc April, thanks to the enterprise of the Dublin Aits Club, those of the Dublin public interested in such matters had an opportunity of seeing apeci. mens of one of the newest born and most fin dc riecle of the arts—the art as we may say, of tbe hoarding or the blank wall. Tbe exhibition of French Posters which was recently held at the Westmin- ster Aquarium has been on view in Dub- lin during last month. It ia to be hoped . that the art of men like Jules Cheret, Grnsiet, Lautrec, and Boutetde Monville will help to effect a revolution in the decoration—il we may use the word—of □ur Dublin hoardings. It is sadly needed. Many of the most beautiful perspectives of our city exeat present desecrated by the hideous glare of 1 ©UR HDVieE IN THE MATTER OF POSTERS AND DISTRIBUTING WORK Has contributed largely toward the success of many a Fair. Do YOU want it? It's at your service, together, with our best efforts in preparing estimates and ads. Send us the necessary data and we will prepare your copy; in other words we will write your bills and other advertisements, and do it well. You are thus relieved of It is often said that we will do more work to get an -order than any other printing hodse. That's right; and we do it gladly, because we want "orders. We want your order 1 . " - The Donaldson Litho. Co., Cincinnati, Q. • ; r Write Fitr dm. taialqgne and Samples. *