The billboard (Nov 1895)

BILLBOARD ADVERTISING la the Official Organ of the PENNSYLVANIA Bill Pwtert' Association. Billboard Adv?rtisip^ Contin-iing, he says : "I believe the first duty of a hill poster to himself and to hi* craft, is to sell bill board space to his pa- trons. Any rules or by-lavs that hinder or hamper him aTi^wi^ be sbrikei damage* in a dvfl action, for'whico every member of the organization would be in- dividually liable. It will^be seen there- fore, that the scheme is not feasible even arrrue^tiUs right thins of that sort. Moat all the boy* that Delong to the association have strug- gled hard, and worked like beaver*, 'to get their cities in good shape, and are^ hustling "aqaaring people. The'finrL thing you. know in starts tome "guy tctjog ■ few hoards, etc. He hustles for work, writes Glide Co. and commercial people for work. They (Glide Co. and =ly write this wanting to assist my bill posteri, and I. for one, will right here, if called upon to refuse of the aame paper being "opposition," I will be' to obey the order. Yon also ie city. I say NO. Gride & Co. friends, but I think they take a position in this matter. I have no find with BlLLBOABD ArWKB- All I ask yon to do is: come out id "pet" for the regak posters, and yon can !' Troy, N. V., October Billboard Advertising! .-—The editorial for the consideration of the craft on this side of the water. Michael E. Dundon, for nearly thirty ,. the leading bill poster of Troy, N, Y., junction with their natural allies the das- M abou f four yean ago. and I, h=- — *~ practically control the entire widow, have continued the^'™-~- 'ship, but enUy pigeon-holed wi of consideration. At the last meeting of Association I addressed a strong appeal to the Presi- dent, also to Mr. AL Bryan, both personal my late husband, asking that n be taken to compel the New York State Association to receive and con- r my application for membership, following reply to my appeal speaks a tendancy-to i mprove and ele- 5, observes: "Allow me to commend yonr stand most cordially. The opposition bill posters are the only ones who are benefitting from the present order s elevated by organization, and we wish above all things that the association be perpetuated. It is this very desire that shade below ours captures all the competi- tive work. For my pert, I say get them in. They will do less harm on theinside. than strikes us that be puts the argument about as well as it is possible to do it- His every bill poster of .good standing in the country." A third cites the difficulty of Uller Brothers, of Columbus, [a the futility of any attempt to dictate part of the association to set at naught the great principles underlying the law of supply and demand, is worse [ban puerile —it's imbecile. Suppose we grant merely for the sake of ent, that this absurd theory was practicable, and that the association should eventually succeed in driving Mrs Dan- of the We can only find room for the following: Mr, Breslaner's letter is a fair sample of the position of what might be termed the affords a good example of the tenor of those received from the "outsiders," or opposition. — i„ October 17, 1895. Yours, dated Otta, to AL Bryan and R.C. Cmptwll. nlmiJ to me lor imwtriii. -Why do yon uphold the ___ ? You come out in an ar- ticle in yonr last issue (or the issue before) that the regular established hill poster, should not object to the " opposition " in his town getting c omm ercial work from O. J. Gude Co., etc; that we should be broad-minded enough not to find fault with commercial people in placing some work with "op position." 1, for one,want you and the O. J. Gude Co. and others to distinctly understand that I will not and divide among a select few, a great and growing business, built up fay the hard work of better men, and fa the 1b- of justice. I hope that you will , , with that the -opp with agents that in any way entertain the "opposition " We, the association mem- bers, would be " chumps " to stand any-