The billboard (Jan-June 1898)

THE BILLBOARD dill Posters DEPARTMENT ^ ing (all paintings are ten-thousand-dollar oil paintings), showing his removal sign in danger of destruction, at the hands of one of Jam's envious competitors. This partic- ular individual, you will notice, has dis- guised himself with a pair of green goggles and some very luxuriant "Golways." The painting shows Hoke's good fairy Prosperity :;i th<» art of shooting the rascal on the spot. A liberal reward wili.be paid to the first one that successfully pentrates the disguise, and Mves the correct name of the vandal. Dr. Burkhart. 12t E. Seventh street. Cin- cinnati, will try the boards. He will use a three-sheet and a whole-sheet in his pre- liminary test, and if results justify, will follow it up with an eight-sheet and a twen- ty-sheet. As he will deal direct bill posters should write him at once. The Doctor Prescribes Billposting. BY $XM W. HOKE. A friend of mine met Dr. Beenian during a recent visit to Hot Springs, and naturally got onto the subject nearest both their hearts—advertising. In the course of the remarks, the Doctor said that his concern had a dozen or more sign advertisers travel- ing for them, and painting Beeman's Pepsin Gum on the barns and fences; that these people had been working for them for some years at a heavy expense, and yet that he could travel from Maine to California, and never see one of the signs. On the other hand, he expended a sreat deal less money in bill-posting, and his posters could be found every- where—that no search warrant was necessary to discover them. He said that while he did not con- sider all the money expended in other mediums as absolutely wasted, he did consider bill pesting as the best method for advertising Beeman's Gum. He says that he is always sure of a big increase in sales just as soon as he be- gins posting in a town or city. Here is the testimony of a successful , advertiser, who has spent his money in every method of advertising known to mankind, and he pronounces bill- posting as absolutely the best method. NEW YORK Entertaining Gossip From the Metropolis. The most interesting event of the month just past was the strike at Munson's. Speak- ing of the affair the News said: The bill posters 'are on the warpath, and iheir war paint will be prepared at a mass meeting this afternoon at H East Fourth street. The cause of.,the bill posters* strike is sympathy. The Bill Posters' Union is in the fight to win, and to a man they say they will' see justice done a member. A general strike will probably be ordered to- morrow. The strike is in the shops of Harry Mun- son at 4 Murray street, and in Harlem, and was ordered by the union, because Mr. Mun- son discharged Foreman Charles Miidrum, as it is alleged, without cause. According to the story told by the officers of the union. Mr. Miidrum has practically built up the business of his employer to its present proportions, and received a salary of $35 a week. Now that the business is on a sound footing. It is said, Mr. Munson wished to make a big cut in Mr. Mildram's salary, which he refused, and he was there- upon discharged. — committee of the union called on Mr. Munson last Tuesday, and requested him to reinstate his popular foreman. The com- mittee reported that Ire had promised to place him in charge of the Harlem shop, and told them to come back on Thursday. When Mr. Miidrum saw Mr. Munson that day he was informed of his final discharge. The next day a meeting of the union was held, and a strike was immediately ordered. Mr. Munson secured sir men from Pater- _Son. N_ J., but when they learned that th«=y were to take the places of the strikers they ■* returned home. Another firm in the same business, O. J. Gude & Co., of West Broad- way, then lent some of their m»n to Mr. Munson. and it is because of this that anoth- er strike will be ordered to-morrow in the shops of O. J. Gude & Co. lue strikers have established headouartprs at 64 East Fourth street, where a meeting of all top biU posters in the city will be held this afternoon, and the threat is freely made that the 'bill boards of the city will not re- ceive their change of dress this week. The strike committee of the union re- quests all outside bill posters to stay away from New Tork during the present strike. The next day the Tribune had the fol- lowing: The Pill PcftTs' Union held a meeting at No. 64 East Fourth street, yesterday after- the best he could have chosen in all the city. Sam W. Hoke has moved into a spieuaid suite of palatial offices at Fifth avenue and Twenty-eighth street. The location Le. about noon, to take action in relation to the trou- ble among its members. The bill posters in the employ of Henry Munson, at No. 4 Mur- ray street, stopped work last week because it was alleged that a foreman. Charles Mild- rum, had been discharged. After the meet- ing yesterday Delegate Sheehan said that all the men would return to work this morning. He declared that the union had never in- dorsed a strike in Munson's place, and would not recognize one there. The foreman was not amember of the union, and was not per- mitted to post bills. He also said that no striiie would be ordered at O. J. Gude & Co.'s shops, in West Broadway, because it was not a union shop. The real facts in the case are as follows: Charles Miidrum, the old foreman, was discharged for general cussedness, and all the down-town men quit in sympathy, and remained out Thursday, Friday and Satur- day; all, however, clamored for their places on Monday, March 28, and the best onea were taken back, but all good men that had gone to work were retained. There was no union question involved, and the foreman was not a union man. He was getting $35 per week, but had been neglecting business for a long time, and remonstrances and pleadings and requests were all in vain: . finally Manager Lowden .made up his mind that there was nothing left but to discharge the man—since which time advertisers have been: able to secure information when want- ed, about the locations, nature of the dis- play, ets. B. C. Campbell, of Chicago, paid this city a eying visit April 18 and 19. F.ill Posters' Union No. 1 recently raised its initatlon fee from $10 to $25. About Paste. The secret of preserving paste lies in the use of alkili. The other ingredients put in it are intended to give it a pleasant flavor. Any alkili that will preserve the albumen of the flour from decomposition will keep paste from spoiling. A paste that will keep for a year may be made as follows: Dis- solve an ounce of alum in a quart of water, stir in a little flour, carefully beating up the lumps; stir in a half teaspoonful of pow- ered rosin and pour on this mixture a pint of boiling water, stirring well. Set away in a cool place. When needed for use soften with warm water. It will keep just as long without the rosin. Bosin makes it adher better. , Here is a paste that you can peddle: Take* a quart of warm water and dissolve an ounce of powdered alum in it; stir in flour with the hand until it becomes so thick you can not beat it any .longer; pour in boiling water until the paste begins to cook; stop pouring in water, but stir until the paste is cooked. Paste cooked too much won't stick well. It ought to be pretty thick. Level it down and pour water on it to keep it from cooking on top. Allow it to stand in a cool place over night, when it may be cut up in chunks, wrapped in strong paper and carried in the grip. When you reach your journey's end, thin the ,paste with water and it is ready for use. Thick paste like this, before thinning, will keep in good condition for a year if kept covered with alum water. Never thin paste with cold water if you want it to do good service. Paste does bet- ter, anyway, when hot. Use wooden vessels, particularly if the paste contains alum.— Exchange. Texas Billposters' Notice. Brownwood, Tex., April 17, 1S9S. To All Taxes BiU Posters: We wish to organize a Southern Bill Post- er's Association in Texas, and wish you all to help us, as we think it is a good cause. AU that will join, please send your names to the City Bill Poster at Houston, Tex., or to my address, stating in what place you would, like to have the meeting held about July or August 15, 1898. "We have names of several who are willing to organize in Texas,*and hope to hear from all, the bill posters in Texas. Yours for success. HIRAM H. THOMAS. City Bill Poster, Box 466, Brownwood, Tex. George J. Sherer. On "another page we present a portrait of Geo. J. Sherer, Treasurer and General Man- ager of the Minnesota Advertising Company, which owns the bulletin plants in St- Paul. Minneapolis, Duluth, Crookston, Grand Forks and Moorhead. Mr. Sherer has been a resident of Minneapolis for twenty years, during fifteen of which he has been in the advertising business. Those who know him best say he is a royal good fellow, and advertisers generally commend both him and his service. No More Atlases. It is seldom, indeed, that anything appears in a newspaper anent posters as thoroughly sensible as the following from the Paw- tucket ((R. L) Chronicle: A number of alleged "Indelicate" posters were ordered removed from^windows of sev- eral places of business on Broad street last Saturday.afternoon, while in many places all over the. city the same pictures remained unmolested,, and so remained lip to yester- day. If one was bad, all were, and every one should have been removed. It is an indication of the absurdity of the move on the part or the authorities, and justifies the ridicule that it has engendered. The labels pasted on some posters are far more sug- gestive than the posters themselves. Jam Hoke's ad. this month is a reproduc- tion from a ten-thousand-dollar oil paint- I have a stack of letters several feet deep, ficir. friends and others, all asking for one of those atlases that "Billboard" said I was giving away. Several parties enclosed two- cent stamp for postage. The book which the editor made me so generous with weighs about thirty pounds, is three inches thick, twenty-two inches high and seventeen inches wide, and the double page maps are 22x34 inches in size. The small stock of them that I bad at Christmas time, and which I sent out as "My Catalogue of Cities, Towns and Villages in Which I Place Bill Posting," has all vanished, with the exception of one copy that I must keep for my own use. I am sorry that so many people took the article seriously, but bad they noticed that the date of the paper was "April 1," this explanation would have been unnecessary. * . $AM W. HOKE. SOUND SENSE. From a Newspaper, Too. The soldier orator, Mr. Frank W. Smith, would do awful things with the bill boards on which too lively pictures are presented. The average person, however, never thinks of the wickedness of the bill board pictures until a crusade is made against them. At other times the people give them a glance in passing, and go on about their business, without bestowing upon them the compli- ment of a second thought.—Brocton (Mass.) Enterprise. We clip the following from.the samepaper: In the big three-sheet posters and the smaller hangers advertising Hoyfs "A Stranger in New York," which is to come here to-night, the people ot Brockton have first opportunity presented for seeing the now famous dog and the nursing bottle, the idea of which was secured in this city. The Enterprise has previously told how Mr. Hoyt, when visiting this city with "A Contented Woman"—otherwise Mrs. Hoyt— saw the picture, which had been cut from a magazine and placed on the wall at the City Theater. He was struck with its possibil- ities as a poster, and took it away with him. Later he secured the necessary permission to use it, and it has since become as well known as the cat that attracted so much attention as a forerunner for "Charley's Aunt." Moline, 111. The amendment to the bill posters ordi- nance, which amendment was passed by the city council Monday evening, secures for bill posters the right to paste or paint on sidewalks, provided a written permit from the property owners is filed with the City Clerk. Kalamazoo, Mich. The new ordinance requires bill posting firms to take out a license. Any violation of the ordinance will bring a punishment of a fine of from $5 to $50 and a term in jail, if the offender refuses to pay it, of not more than fifty days. The ordinance also makes it unlawful to post bills on any buildings, bridges, lamp-posts, poles, shade trees, etc.. without first obtaining the consent of the owner. Any one violating the latter portion will have to pay a fine not exceeding $5. Rochester, N. Y. The action brought by the Rochester Bill Posting Company against the city has been discontinued by the plaintiffs. They have paid the cost and quit for the present. The case was tried before Justice Nash, and de- cided against the company. The case of Dorothea Baumann against Albert Gehrke, as President of the D. O. H. Monroe County Life Insurance Company, was tried in municipal court yesterday, it Erie, Pa. Btrt Wheeler, the youth arrested for il- legal posting, was discharged. He claimed to be working under Joseph E. Girard, and it would appear that Girard disposed ot his bill posting business to the Erie Bill Post- ing Company before going to Buffalo. As Girard was not in the purview of; the court, thh .Mayor did not care to punish the agent, and he was allowed to depart. The Bill Posters' Union declares in its constitution against unnecessary Sunday wor'-, and intimates that much of their usual posting on this day is not only un- necessary, but unlawful, and the uniou thus sets up an organized protest against habit- ual violation of city ordinances. Howard Blauford and Sam .Jesse, of Owensboro, Ky., are ahead of the Great Main Shows. A SHELBYVILLE, IND., BOARD. - ■ International Billposting Asso- ciation. The members ot the International Bill Posting Association are voting for President P. F. Scbaefer like one man. Mr. J. E. WilllaniB started the ball rolling last month by writing a postal to each member, urging ibera to interest themselves In Mr. Schaef- •er's candidacy. The result is shown in the way in which Mr. Schaefer has jumped up in the race. Mr. Williams has also had made dupli- cates of the official trade mark of the asso- ciation, which he offiers to members at the phenominally low price ot seventy-five cents each, barely sufficient to cover cost of cut and postage. All members ordering these cuts are re- quested to send a postal order -for fifty-seven cents with their order. Secretary Sherer reports new applications for membership almost daily, and President Schaefer says the organization is prosper- ing as it never has before. Can Anyone Answer This Man? I have received the following inquiry, and am at a loss bow to reply. Perhaps some one of the ten thousand readers of "Bill- board" has had dealings with the gentle- man named, and will be able to answer: B . M—., April 11, 1898. Mr. Sam W. Hoke, New York. Dear Sir:—Will you kindly advise me in regard to the standing of one Edward A. Stahlbrodt, 62 Broadway, New York City, and oblige Yours truly, I , City Bill Poster. On receipt of the above I sent a messenger out to search 62 Broadway, and he reported that no such person was known at that address. Trow's New York City Directory for 1897 was then examined, and no such name as Stahlbrodt could be found between its covers. The name, however, sounds fa- tnallar, and I am loath to drop the subject without appealing to "Billboard's" readers. Perhaps some one of them knows of Ed- ward A. Stahlbrodt, and perhaps this one can tell If Edward "stands well." Since writing the above I hear it rumored that Mr. C. S. Hougbtaling is expecting to em- ploy a solicitor by the name given, and If so ho may be able to give some Information. $AM W. HOKE. For Posting: Wrongfully. Dave Coylc, the bill poster, had his day in Recorder Rossiter's Court before a jury April 21 for posting a notice on a tele- graph pole at the corner of Lelacey and streets, on December 13th, in violation of ordinance No. 345. The jury consisted of Frank Youngs, J. Brown, J. H. Baker. Otto Sprong. Joe La Spada and S. B. Tubbs. They decided that Mr. Coyle was guilty. New York Notes. Harry Munson's boards are as bright as a gay flower garden, with Is large assortment of spring poster*. At this writing his boards, contain the following paper, ali in taige quantities, and a great deal of it showing on r.r board; exclusively- Electrical Show, 28-sheet. (Glllam & Shau- ncssy. Fitzgerald's Beer and Ale. (Sam W. Hoke). Young's Hats. 8- and 16-sheets. Moxie. 8-aheet* Pearllne. 24-shects. Hunter Bicycle. 8-sheet. Hawen Hats. 8-sheet. (Hoke). New York World. 24-sheet. (Also posted throughout New. England by Munson.) Search Light Lamp. 8-sheet. (Also National showing by Munson.) Old Valley Whisky. 12-shcet, (Houghtaliug). Vlrein Leaf Tobacco. Dubham's Cocoa. 8-sheets. Pettliohn'p Rreakfast Food, 24-sheets. Plllfburv vitos. Gabler's Pianos, 16-sheet fVirofii! Parnet Cleaning Co.. 8-sheeU. Vln Marianl. 24-sheets. lohan Hon" Malt. Bnro Llthla, 8-?lieets. Diamond Dyes. 24-shects. H O.. 8-sheets. Salvation Army. 3-sheet. S-sheet and 24- thvettt. *i addition to the above th»re Is the usual quantity of theatrical work. 3-sheet. 1-sheet, and other small stutT of the chance-may-uflur variety, forming altogether the most com- plete- and attractive looking lot of bill buatus In the Union. Munson is now blanking around posters on nis board", the flrrt to adont thin improve- ment In the metronoli>. as he was the Hrst Jo adopt all-metal boardR. now the rule here. The matter of blanking is a very serious one IT" w here tbe space rents are so excessive, unci whore it ■* necsrarv to make every inch of » hin board produce revenue. It Is rumored that Stahlbrodt !«. to work J"" Hnughtallng on the first of May, as so- licitor Sam W. Hoke Is sending nut larire con«lgn- •"enti. of the Gonrge W. Chl'd* Cigar panor throughout the* New England States. In addi- tion In th« large we«tern section alreadv covered. Hnke'a establishment Is coveted with si-ns announcing his oarlv removal in * Ifth Avenue, cor 28th Street. Mav 1st. Sam '" v » h- '• In no dancer of starving, as the new place la so near to Dclmonlco's. ■barley Bernard, of Bernard » Anderson, the n«w people of Pavamiah. pa'd Now York a visit, and Interviewed the fcnernl adver- •Iwr to advantage to both Parties. He takes hack "tiitp n number or good orders. It. T. Itnfn repreaentlmr the R. J. Ounnlnrt •"p.. In thlf city Mate* that he has fevered nir connection with that concern, and now prono'cF to work for a while In the Interests of Ross. THE BILLBOARD The Salvation Army on the Bill- boards. FROM ENGLAND. The Metropolitan Job Print is responsible for the first distinctive stand work yet re- corded for a religious body. They got uut last month a number of sizes and style*, or posters for the Salvation Army, ranging through one-sheets, three-sheets, eight-sheets and twenty-elght-sheet stands, in colois. The posters contain mammoth portraits of Cuiu- maneder Booth, and announce great revival meetings. The experiment should be watched with in- terest by other religious organizations. The poster appeals essentially to the masses, the rr— people the churches want to interest, and other methods do not reach the enure papulation as the poster does. Little Rock Needs a Billposter. John Moore. In The Billposter for March repeats what "The Billboard" has been say- ing for some time, though In milder lan- guage. Moore says that the local merchants of Little Rock are slow In posting. This is of course almost -Wholly due to the fact that there is practically no billposting for the house, and accepts orders from the advertis- ers. Whether he ever places the advertisers' paper is a question that is answered In vari- ous ways by those people who endeavor to. learn something definite, never to receive a reply of any kind till probably six mourns We are in receipt of a- copy ot the Bill- posters' Directory, published by the United Billposters Association of Great Britain. It consists of two hundred pages, 514 by 8%, and is well printed on good paper. It lists 563 bill posters in England, Ireland, Scot- land and Wales, and abounds in information useful to advertisers and agents. It carries thirty-three pages of advertising. 'Walter Hil & Co. has the outside cover. Welling & Co. have page two of the cover, and the Irish Bill Posting company have page three of the cover. The book is splendidly planned and ad- mirably arranged. It is compact and con- venient. We have never seen a directory that equals it in this respect. Price in cloth 50 cents, in paper cover 25 cents. Remit in international postal order to C. G. Wright, 61 Chancery Lane, Lon- don, W. C. Geo. Baldwin, of Derby, Conn., has joined out ahead of Buffalo BUI. Southern Illinois would !be comparatively un- known but for L. E. Tiemann, the hustling billposter of Belleville, 111. The members of the International Bill Posting Association are voting as a unit for P. F. Scaefcr. GSORGE J. SHERER later, when a bill Is sent in for the work, ai- letred to have been done months befoit. Little Rock Is a city of consequence, popu- lation about 50.000. and is the Capitol and -hlef city of the State. The proper man. with a few dollars, could undoubtedly work up a good business there. Have You Seen Mose ? The Devious Schemes of the Du- ■ bious Has-Beehs. BY $ AM W. HOKE. The bill-posting craze has struck the wilds of Kern county, and the services of a young negro by the name of Mose are in great de- mand, as is shown by the following letter received yesterday by Constable Harry John- ston from a brother constable in Kern coun- ty. In order that there may be no mistake about the identity of Mose. the letter is renrodured verbatim et punctuatum: "Constable at Los Dear sir Is there in your town a young necrro by name of Mose he is about 18 ys old slim build and has the usual lazy Coon wall: if this will you please in- form him that Fred Watson his former em- ployer wants him for Bill posting and tell him to conic up at once will vou drop me a Cnrd If you see him or not." Ben Rosenthal, well known in Kansas City 'from his long connection with the theaters and the Kansas City Bill Posting Company, bas joined Sells & Porepaugh's Circus. Will Smart, a Bradford (Pa.) bill poster, has joined Buffalo Bill's advance forces. A certain bill poster, who was at one time a power in the bill posting world, but who Is rapidly becoming a "has been," indus- triously slings mud at any one who has the good sense to pass his third-class plant and to give his posting to Has Been's more suc- cessful rivals. This concern uses every bulldozing method to secure business for its rapidly decreasing number of bill boards: the advertiser who goes to it on account of its prestige of age—all the prestige it has left—is given to understand at once that Has Been wants one-half the appropriation for the city "or he won't take a sheet:" if the advertiser objects a compromise is of- fered of one-third: when the advertiser finally wants to see lists, to know where all this paper is to be placed. Has Been assures him that the list will be supplied as soon as the paper is posted. Sometimes the ad vertiser is bullyragged Into an order, but after the first one he knows better. The fact of the matter is that this concern has let its plant dwindle to the importance or some 7c village, while Its two rivals are up to date in every detail and outclass it in every point. Some of the members or employes of this almost defunct concern have been circulat- ing a silly yarn that bill posters are refus- ing to post my paper. There is, of course, not even the least shadow of fact behind the yarn: .even the concern of Has Been itself has never failed to place what paper it has been so fortunate as to have offered It by me. In fact, there is not a single Instance— mind. I say' not one—where a bin poster anywhere has ever refused my paper, either today, last week or last year,- or at any other time. -.- . ~: •!- : r The whole matter in a nutshell is that Mr. Has Been can't help endeavoring in every way to belittle any one that does not do just as Has Been wishes. That la all there is to it. Some people wonder why he doesn't de- vote some of this ill-spent energy- toward bettering his plant and business generally; and those who have studied the matter aay the reason is that the only way Has Been knows for bettering himself is by pulling down his neighbor. „„ A ._ Des Moines, la., April 22, 1898. Editor "The Billboard:" D:ar Sir—Will you please announce through the columns of your valuable paper, that ow- ing to a combination of circumstances, over which I have no control, I am compelled to postpone, at least for the present season, the publication ot the Reliable Directory. It hat, proven very expensive in one way, and very profitable in another, but for the present 1 Bball confine myself to the contracting of out-door advertising (and will have some ad- vertising for vou in that line soon). All monies received have been refunded. I have been very careful as to amount, address, etc., and would be glad to hear of any oversights, errors, etc Thanking you for favors, encouragement, etc.. I am Very truly. FRANK V. DRAPER, Per J. B. Intveldl D. C. Humphry's & Co.', of Philadelphia, make the best hand-painted stands or man- ugraphs that we have ever examined. There' - is a force and distinctive character to their I work that one looks for In vain in many of | hand-process posters that are now on the boards. Bill posters and advertisers will do well to write them for prices and bear them in mind. The Edwin A. Hardin Company. 519 Wal- nut street, Cincinnati, are meeting with wonderful succeRs In introducing the new Williams' Typewriter. They have quite a number of writing machines of other makes on band. These latter they have taken as part pay when they have -put In a Williams'. They sell these second-hand machines Yery low. Many a bill poster who is deterred from putting In a machine on account of the hiph price of a new one- would buy at once if he but knew how cheap he can get a good second-hand machine. The Hardin Company will be glad to quote special rates to "Bill- board" readers. L. R. Tiemann, of Belleville, III, sav* he has enough work at borne, ani «i- «= net care to take in the smaller towns around h'm Booth's "Hyomei" is being advertised on the bill boards In New York City again. "A twelve-sheet poster is used, the eye-catcher being a big kangaroo. There Is more text used than a good poster should have, but the general effect is better than other "Hyomei" posters we have seen.—Display Advertising. Of course, the effect is better. It was made by Jam Hoke, who made all "Hyomei" post- ers except those criticised by the editor of Display. Manchester Va.. has repealed the ordi- nance licensing bill posters. Farber P. Burbridge is the city bill poster at Jacksonville, Fla. ~ Billposters' Questions Answered. THE TITLES OF THE ANSWERS .will hereafter supersede initials in this column, which is devoted only to questions of general interest. Queries of a purely personal na- ture are answered by mail when the corre- spondent encloses a stamp for reply. THE SCALE OF PRICES of the Interna- tional BiU Posting Association are identical- ly the same as those ot the Associated Bill Posters. Formerly there was a slight differ- ence, but the A. B. P. revised their scale end then the I. B. P. A. re-revlsed theirs. To-day they are exactly the same. THE OPEN ASSOCIATION is the associa- tion of the future. It is in no sense a chim- erical ideality. It has long obtained in Eng- land, and right here in America, has been tried and found to be the biggest kind of a success. The New York City Association is the instance referred to. Nothing in the an- nals of metropolitan bill posting has done more to benefit the bill posters and the busi- ness. Neither of the associations are open. The I. B. P. A. is so in name only. The lead- ing members of theorganization would have it so. and the executive committee at its- last meeting declared in favor of it- The fact mains, however, that it is no more "open" than the A. B. P. PRESERVING PA PTE is not a di<ncutm-1- W. A little salicylic acid, blue stone (blue vitriol! or corrosive sublimate (merc*i*rie chorid) added before mixing, and steaming will preserve paste for months. THE NUMBER OF SHEETS necessary for a good showing depends entirely upon the j town. It used to be calculated on a bari« of ! one sheet to a hundred population forfairbill- ing. but all rigid rules are now discarded. Each bill poster and each agent has a law ot his own. W. B. LOWDEN is the Secretary and Gen- eral Manager of Munson's, the big New York City bill posting plant. I