Billboard advertising (July-Dec 1900)

THE BILLBOARD m Inn-nam 9 f | O Department. | ; ASupremeCourt Decision. That the Supreme Court of Wisconsin, recent- ly rendered an important decision relative to : the height cf fences and boards,, which is in i "every way favorable from a bill poster's point *:f view, is a matter of far more than pass- ing comment to the craft, and. especially so now, in the light of the adverse decision of Circuit Judge Ross, of Los Angeles. Follow- ing is a copy of the text of the Wisconsin State decision: . METZGER VS. HOCHREIN. (Supreme Court of Wisconsin. June 21, 1900.) Plaintiff possessed an attractive house, sur- rounded by lawns, on a village lot. Defend- ant, owning the adjoining lot, built a fence four feet from plaintiff's house, but entirely on defendant's land, consisting of rough tamarack posts, from 8 to 16 feet high, and old. unsightly, and partly decayed lumber, ;■ of varying lengths, and extending about 90 reet back from the street, and supported by wires strung from the tops of the posts to defendant's house. It did not interfere with plaint**** use of his property, but partially shut off a. view of the street, and depreciated its rental -value. Held, that plaintiff could not abate the fence as a nuisance, though de- fendant wilfully and maliciously built It to annoy him. Appeal from circuit courts Sheboygan County; Michael Kirwan. Judge. Injunction by Parmelia. Metzger against H. 11. Hochreln to abate an unsightly fence as a nuisance. From a judgment overruling a demurrer to .plaintiffs complaint, defendant appeals. ~ action to restrain an alleged nuisance on' facts set forth la the complaint in substance as follows: Plaintiff owns lots 5, 6, 7 and 8 of block 15i division 1, in the village of Glen- beulah. Wis., on which she has a dwelling house located about four feet from the west line, surrounded by made lawns and yards, making an attractive and valuable home. . Defendant owns the adjoining lot on the west cf plaintiff's land, in connection with other - lots, on which he has a dwelling house, lo- cated about fifty feet from the division line. July 22, 1839, defendant set rough tamarack posts, from eight to sixteen feet high, along said division, line, wholly on his own land, about four feet from the line of, plaintiff's dwelling house, and extending back from the street front about ninety feet. He strung wires from the tops of such posts to bis house, in order to hold the posts firmly in po- s.tion, "and on and supported by such posts he constructed a* tight board fence of rough, old, unsightly and partly decayed lumber taken from- an old ice house, such fence being from 8 to IS feet high, the highest part being opposite the windows to plaintiff's house. Said structure is, by reason of its unsightly character and proximity to plaintiff's house, a nuisance. It was willfully and maliciously erected. It partially shuts off the view from plaintiff's house to the street and from the street to the house; greatly injures the value of the property for rent or sale, and if it be permitted to continue, the use of such house as a dwelling place will have to be aban-' doned. ii-! The defendant demurred to the complaint '■Ci upon the ground that it fails to state facts '5, sufficient to constitute a cause of action. The ylri. demurrer was overruled, and defendant an-'. "M>. peals. , . CV+i M. C. Mead, fcr appellant. A. C. Shaw, for *£' respondent. P] Marshall, J., (after stating the facts): The r*i question presented' here is, may a person fc| rfghtly use his own land as he sees fit, re- J* gardless of his motives, if that use render i*l adjoining property less valuable and desirable it for dwelling-house purposes, merely from "jj-1 _ di minish ed beauty of surroundings and access .J cf light to the property, and opportunity to >iV; see it from the surrounding territory and to ill—J freely view such territory therefrom, there irit > being nothing projected from the adjacent 'i i land causing any injury to such property or its occupants? It will be noted that it is not a. - claimed the acts complained cf caused any He physical Injury to plaintiff's property or k. the occupants thereof. The sole complaint is that the beauty and cheerfulness of the property has been injured by defendant's ,., _, conduct, and that the structure complained ":fi I °' was erected unreasonably and with mali- pXH ' r clous motives. So the case comes down plain- P-'ti Iy to *"* inquiry stated. Jtrg \ It is not an easy task to define with clear- I" t' ness what constitutes a. nuisance, so that lifjl each case, as it arises, can be accurately test- I'.pi ed thereby. Probably the language of Wood 8.-fl4 on-Nuisances, at section 1, often quoted with "r| "approval by this court, comes as near strict V accuracy as the nature of the subject will ffl/J permit: "Every unlawful use by a person "IMS of his own property in such a way as to the occupants of adjoining property, as to con- stitute a nuisance within the rule stated; but acts which do not reach the adjoining prop- erty in a .physical sense, yet diminish its value and desirability for a particular use, as for dwelling-house purposes, have not been supposed to constitute an actionable nuisance. True, there are decisions in tire State of Michigan,, and some dicta of courts elsewhere, to the effect-that, if one malicious- ly use his own property to the annoyance of his neighbors, regardless of any physical discomfort to them, he is guilty of an action- able nuisance; the element of malice render- ing that an actionable wrong which would otherwise be rightful. That doctrine, how- ever, has very little support. None, in fact, where the rules of the common law have not been changed by legislation and the courts have kept strictly withdn their legitimate sphere as administrators cf the law. The general rule is that whatever "a man may lawfully do on his own property under any circumstances, he may do regardless of the motive for his conduct. 16 Am. & Eng. Enc, Law, p. 930; South Royalton Bank vs. Suf- folk Bank, 27 Vt. 505; Mahan vs. Brown, 13 Wen. 261; Phelps vs. Nowlen, 72 N. Y. 40; Bordeaux vs. Greene (Mont.) .56 Pac. 218; Rideout vs. Knox, 148 Mass. 368, 19 N. E. 390, 2 L. R. A. 81;_Vuest vs. Reynolds. 68 111. 478. That doctrine is as well defined In- the com- mon law as any that has to do with the rights and remedies cognizable by courts, ana ■ courts that have departed from it have, as it seems, trespassed upon the domain of the legislative department of the government. In Rideout vs. Knox, supra, the power of the legislature even- was questioned to cur- tail the use by a person of his own property to the extent of preventing its malicious use, the act under consideration being one to pre- vent the maintenance of unreasonably high fences from malicious motives. The court said, in effect, that the ownership of land carries with, it the constitutional right to en- joy such land in any way the owner -sees fit, 1-mited only to such external effects as d.minish the physical enjoyment of adjoining property; that such right, regardless of the motive for its exercise, is a property right within constitutional protection, the same as any other property right, and can not be in- , terfered with except to the extent of reason- able police regulations; that legislation pre- venting the unreasonable maintenance of a high fence, where a bad motive is the sole purpose thereof. Is within the limits of the constitutional exercise of police power. But it was intimated that legislation, prohibiting the maintenance of a fence where a bad mo- tive for-such maintenance is coupled with some other that would cause it independent of the' mere desire thereby to annoy an ad- joining owner, would contravene constitu- tional rights of property. The result of the case was that, but for the statutory police regulation of the height of fences, the plaintiff would have been remediless regard- less of the height of the fence In question or the motive for erecting and maintaining it. In the very recent case of Bordeaux vs. Green, supra, where the fence complained of was forty feet high, the court said that the - right of one land-owner to erect a ■ structure so as to shut off air and 7 light from the win- dows of a building on adjoining property. Is unaffected by the motive; therefore, that wnether the fence in question was- erected as an improvement or ornament to the property on which, it was located, or purely to annoy adjoining land-owners, made no difference as to the legal right: to maintain it. With few exceptions, the authorities are all ' in harmony with the foregoing, clearly Indi- cating that the complaint in question tails to state a cause of action, and that the de- murrer was Improperly overruled. This is one of the many cases that may arise where the doctrine of personal liberty " and personal dominion of one over his own property enables him to do things to the an- noyance of others, not causing actual, mate- rial physical discomfort to them, for which there is no punishment, except loss of that respect which every right-thinking man de- sires from his- neighbors, and the possession of which is a source of daily enjoyment- If one is so constituted as not to be susceptible to those feelings which a reasonably well- balanced man is supposed to possess, and is so constituted as to obtain, more pleasure out of needlessly annoying others than by secur- ing and retaining their respect as a manly member of society, his sovereign right in his own property, to use it as he may sd far as '.- that use does not physically extend outside u-is boundaries to the detriment of others, may be so exercised as to violate the moral obligations which every member of society owes to his neighbors, without any penalty being visited upon him for his misconduct, of which he can be made conscious. » * The order overruling the demurrer Is re- versed, and- the cause remanded for further proceedings according to law. and they pronounced them perfectly scfe. Health Officer Grosh thought he would make * a pretty play,:.and so took* an- axe jmself. We knew nothing of it. We were expecting to have-a chance to defend'bur rights in , court,( as they promised we should have." "I can't grant an injunction until this mat- ter is looked into," said the judge". "They may go ahead and demolish more of our boards, then," said Mr'. Stautzenbach. "No, I don't th-.nk they will do anything' like that. I tell you what I will do. I will give you a note to the city solicitor. If he will assure you that he will not allow more boards to be destroyed until the matter has been- determined,'then an injunction will not be granted. If he will not give the- "assure ance, then you may have your injunction;" »-This was very satisfactory to Mr. Stautz- enzach, and so he deferred filing his petition untli he had seen the solicitor, but hi has no fears now of the authorities taking further steps until the court authorizes them to do so. The solicitor said: "Let the couft grant au injunction. We aon't care. We are expect- ing it. We will come in with a motion to dissolve and fight the whole question out in court.": "Will you give them the assurance they ask?" queried the reporter. , ."I have not seen the police board yet, but 1 think not. The remedy is in the courts. -Let • them go there. I don't think they will get ~" any assurances from us." . A little after noon to-day Judge Barber granted a temporary Injunction, restraining the health officer and the police department from tearing down any of the Bryan bill boards. The case will be tried when the city solicitor flies a motion to dissolve the injunc- tion, M s he will do. The Toledo Trouble. ctjEj cause injury to the property rights-' of an- Cm other, producing material annoyance, incon- ■;ffij venience, discomfort or hurt; and every en- p ~.\M joyment by one of his own- property which sr ly v'olates the rights of another in an essential mt^M degree, constitutes an actionable nuisance." Wfc| Ib applying that to any given state of facts, ***'■•* !t m,,a * °e kept In mind that the injury re- Tn-'Es ferred to, whether to property or the occu- jOSfZl pants thereof, is physical. A trade may be C carried on in such a way, either by polluting g the atmosphere or by creating such disturb- ances as- to cause physical inconvenience to Toledo. O., July 26.—(Special.)—The chances are that no more bill boards belonging to the Bryan Company will be torn down by the health officer or policemen until the court has passed on the question. Henry Stautzen- bach appeared before Judge Barber this morning with a petition, asking for an in- junction. He told the judge that the police board had assured the company that they would tear down no bill boards until the mat- ter had been laid before the court, but at the first opportunity, Mr. Stautzenba'ch said, the police demolished them'and endeavored thus to destroy a legitimate business. "If it is shown here," said Ju*dge Barber, "that the boards were endangering life or were a source of disease, I would grant no injunction. If they are not, then certainly an injunction- would be granted.' There is no evidence before me. and this matter should have a speedy settlement." "I bad these boards examined." spoke up Mr. Bryan, "by several competent architects. Marceline, Mo., Matters. To the Editor of "The Billboard:" Dear Sir—I am getting along nicely with my distributing business. I have put out 4,000 booklets for Hood's Medicine Co., Chicago: 4.000 for Boston Med'cal Co., 5,000 for Sterling Remedy Co.. and 4,000 booklets for Mr. Mol- ton, Cleveland, O. I have no opposition, as I construct my own bill boards. I bad 5 32-Bheet boards made of ship-lap lumber. k . I have been in this city ten years. Mar- celine is 100 miles from Kansas City; popula- tion, 3,000. Tours respectfully. C. F. LONG. the spring (I think) of 1898 Beckley had a quarrel wjth an amiable female, and flew de coop,'taking all the treasury. At the be- ginning-of the Spanish-American war I left for the .front. On my return I found these parties had swiped the title "Sunbury Bill Posting Company," S. Cameron & Co. Last week the two-were sent- up for thirty-five days, and when they come out will go back to jail for court in September. - I wish you would give this- notice, so save advertisers. The only firm In Sunbury is the. Sunbury Bill Posting and Distributing Company. JAS. C. YOUNG. Fostoria, 0., Facts. To the Editor of the "Billboard!" Dear Sir:—Here Is something that tatne uh=- der our eyes, anfl we can't Help speaking about it, and think the craft at large should knbw it. Campbell & Sons' Opera House Drug Store is on the corner of Main and Cen- ter streets, and our office is 1111 West Center street opposite their side door, and on the door step they had a few days ago a pile of the Emerson Drug Co., of Baltimore, Md., sheet music, which they sent here to have handed out to the trade over the counter, but to our own knowledge the pile of.200 only lasted a few, hours, after the boys got from Jen to twenty each one, and one would tell the other until all the small boys in town got on to the fact and came, but it was too late a f **T wer f aU Bone - Now - that 's the kind cf distributing that hurts the business, for the company thinks the cheapest way is the best, and that Is what they got. I do hope the time will come when the advertisers will wake up and do business with the bill poster l i ... wan ' s to have the work done as it should be done. Yours truly, W. C. TIRR1LL. Portsmouth:, 0., Pointers. To the Editor of "The Billboard:" Dear Sir—I am pleased to say I am rushed this week; have Mennen's 8-sbeets; Duke's Mixture, 8-sheets; Coca'Cola, 8 2-sbeets and 1-sheets; Factory Smoker Cigars, 12-sheets; Maysville Fair, 3 and 1-sheets; Lexington, Elks' Fair. 24, 8, 3 and 1-sheets, and Ohio State Fair coming. Distributed 10.000 for Washington Med. Institute last week at street fair, and must say it was a frost. Buffalo Bill played to a big business here Friday. 25,000 people saw the show. The street fair did about- 81,000 on the weak, and somebody will get stuck for their money. Best wishes, R. W. LODWICK. I Susquehanna, Pa., Squibs. .Mennen s Talcum Powder is about the only commercial pap«*upon the boards here at present The Hygienic Medical Institute mat- ter was distrlbuted-a* the shop doors by trav- " el.ng representatlvesV While in Binghimton, «. i., tn.s week. I had a pleasant visit with Kn n - mUC £- a £ UEea W - D ' Redinrton. of ir £.;« ■ Co. and found that gentleman JrtS fi n t n ^ a8ed „ m , stl ?i8i>tening out the dfs- £fwH*S i , br ,ii nc Vl their "tensive business. UlI. V^ll rece , nt flr e. which destroyed their plant in that city. Mr. Redirigton says that asEoon as arrangements can te made their ; S?i2? 8olnB to advertise through the fra- ternity more extensively than ever He is S£< C .?h amusc £ at £ e «tt»cks'-ot the various dstr.butors throughout the columns of "The Billboard. • and says It-takes something like S-LSJ^? 1 " , d s cuss!on to wake up the boys. Personally, I have always found Dr. Kilmer r .- a K° od -nouse to do business with, and believe they are willing to pay a fair price fZ-frl "ZT 1 "? Amcn S « e bills on "he boards in Binghamton are Coca Cola Old ?»? W ,J V S Isky ' Vir f in <» Cheroots, Mennen's Talcum Powder and Paragon Pants CHAS. E. WHITNEY. Yoakum, Mex., Letter. To the Editor of "The Billboard:" Dear Sir—Since business Is very dull In the bill posting line, I flatter myself on having pasted on my boards Old Virginia Cheroots, Prickly'Ash Bitters, etc. There Is not much advertising done down" here, however. Texas is certainly an* excellent field for business. Yoakum is the largest town, east of San An- tonio. It is the headquarters of the S..A. & A. P. Railroad shops, and has a population of about 8,000. "At present I am distributing and advertising Climax Washing Tablets for Thos. Orth- & Son, San Antonio, Tex., and will take the road" shortly with 1.000 sheets ot street fair paper, advertising the carnival at Yoakum July 12 to 26. If advertisers desire work done in this section, I shall he pleased to serve-them.. FRANK RHODES. Bakersfield, Cal., Briefs. To the Editor of "The Billboard:" Dear.Sir—Why do eo many bill posters re- fuse to join some one of the different associ- ations? It can not be because the fee is too great. Any bill poster who can not afford it had better borrow the money and see the re- sults. The only kick I have Is that lumber Is too high, aa it keeps me busy building boards, (at J40 per thousand), but now 1 have space for 2,700 sheets, and have on my boards Stockton Street Fair, Baker's Choco- late, Barker's Collars, Walk-Over Shoe, San- ta Fe Route, Cornado Beach for the summer, Fantella Cigar. Fat Boy Cigar. Grand Repub- lic Cigar, Delia Rocca Cigar, Trophy Baking Powder, besides three-sheet, and -two-sheet snipes. I bought the plant here four years ago for 815. Did I make a good investment? If you think so, get out and hustle and make yours still a better one. It can be done If ' you have the sand. Fraternally yours. E. R. CRAIN. Madison, Ga., Mems. To the Editor of "The Billboard:" .iii SlT rl have Just remodeled my plant and now claim to have one of the best In this SS^S n; S f S e State ' l 0VDm *«* of Bood ™ a ^.^ e fc de i B e ?°* Iot of three-sheet and one-sheet boards. I have nice signs on each I have recently had the city council to nut a icenseon bill posting, distributing, sign teck- ™,m Heret °tere these tobacco drummers wouhl come in and give a colored boy 25 ? h^-1if ^ ap " un< * and tack a few signs. Now I have that. You see, the advertiser received poor service at that rate; now I do it, and So t right, so as to build up trade. I believe in giving the advertiser all you can for his Sm^'T 8 ? We ""Boaton are dependent on him. I have just closed a deal with the theater to do its work this winter. I have been doing It for Ave years. I have on my" boards now Coco Cola, Dr. Tlchner's Anti septic, Marietta, Chautauqua, Early BlriTTo- b"«o. Sam. W. Hoke, N. y7 Have done dis- Dr U pf/r,i°. r I ? r - *i ,,e8 ' Ce,,ulo!<i Starch and ur. Pierce; also Peruna; sign tacking for Coco Cola, Celluloid Starch? Snapps To- bacco. I am . growing all the time When I opened this plant I did nothing: now »i? ay £ m Z we whlch BDOWS wh <»t can & done like •The Billboard." It Is a good paper'. LEN C. BALDWIN. Notes. L. A. G, III., was a Sunbury, Pa., Smiles. To the Editor of "The Billboard:" Dear Sir—There has been In this town' a fly-by-night concern calling itself the Sun- bury Bill Posting Company. How they ac- quired the title, 1 can not Bay. Several years ago Geo. B. Beckley (Old Man Beck) and my- self (Jas. C. Young) started the Sunbury BUI Posting Company, Jas. C. Young president. Geo. B. Beckley manager and treasurer. In .fjj?.?.™" 1 clty bln Poster of Paris. Billboard caller July 26. John F. Ottlng, of Newport, Ky., has re- turned from a business trip to New York. W. E. Franklin, general agent for Wallace Shows, wants twenty bill posters. Men who have never been with a circus preferred. Amerlcus, Ga.—Furlow & Jones have pur- chased the bill posting plant formerly owned by Mr Lingo. O. C. Johnson has been ap- pointed manager by the new owners. It Is said that the Dr. Chase Medicine Com- pany, of Philadelphia, Pa., contemplates go- ing on the. bill boards, this fall. This firm has been an extensive contractor for house- to-house service, and will doubtless .use bid board space as extensively. Indianapolis, Ind.—The carnival committee has decided to bill the event In one hundred cities and towns in the State. D. M. Parry Is president of the association. Advise yours readers In Indiana to address him with prices, terms, etc., for both town, and country show- ings. ■ Cent Shows. Bill" Show in a Wreck. Detroit, July 29.—Section 1 cf the Buffalo Bill Wild West Show's train suffered a se- vere collision near Milwaukee Junction short- ly before daylight to-day, resulting in the smashing of the show employes' sleeping car, containing some forty inmates. One of the latter is dead, and nine others are la Detroit hospitals suffering from more or less serious injuries. The dead: Edward Sullivan-, aged ST, ot Bridgeport, Conn., porter of the canvas car, who died from Internal hemorrhage after reaching the hospital. The injured: Henry Eastman (nickname Nash), aged.26. of Rochester, N. Y.; one ot the processes cf spine broken off, but spinal cord as yet unaffected. A. J. Burkholder, aged 21, of Bradford, Pa.: crushed and injured very seriously, in- jured internally, back and leg cut by window glass. Recovery hoped for. Henry Burton, aged 28, West Chester, Pa.; knee cut, bruised about back. Joseph McCann, aged 23. of 65 Chambers street. New York; contusion of right hand and left eye cut. Noyes Mix. aged 43. New Haven. Conn.: slightly Injured through chest and hand sprained. Thomas Kelly, aged 28, of 111 North Elliott Place. Brooklyn, N. V.: shoulder bruisea. John Cuslck. aged 25. of Pittsbon, Pa.: right ankle sprained and right side and left leg bruised. George Hunt, aged 23. of Waterbury. Conn.; tontusion of both legs. William Gilmore, aged 23, of Oskalooea, la.: left shoulder and arm bruised, and skin torn from right heel. At the time of the collision the train, con- sisting of twenty wagons and stock cars, four cf the show's sleeping cars and a Grand Trunk caboose., was being transferred from the Michigan Central to the Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwaukee Road. The train was be- ing pushed backward from the "Y" at the Milwaukee Junction, when it was struck by an outgoing Grand Trunk freight train. Th* caboose was jammed into and forced on tcp cf the Buffalo Bill employes' sleeper, No. 5t>, which was filled with sleeping tent and can- vas men. "When the uninjured men had re- covered from the shock, the wrecked sleeper was chopped open and the injured gradually gotten out- The car is a complete wreck, ex- cepting at one end. All the victims will re- t-over shortly excepting the three most se- riously injured. Circuses in Iowa. Des Moines, la.. Aug. 1.—(Special.)—-We are to be well favored with the b.ggest and best shows on tbe road this year. Ringling's has come and gone; Buffalo- Bill's Congress of Rough Riders of the World is to be here some time during the season, presumably on Sept. 8: the Sells-Forepaugh combination is to he a stellar attraction during the State Fair, prov.ded the city council will accept the $200 for a street parade and the usual license fee and tbe directors of the State Fair can be led to see that the show will not interfere with the patronage at the colossal hippodrome three miles east of the city; and latest of all. the big Wallace Shows, which made the town last year, are coming to Des Moines again. This means that practically every big show in the world with but a single exception is to make — es JHolnea before the leaves fall in the autumn and the menageries go into win- ter quarters, and the actors hie themselves to variety show houses. The single exception is Barnum & Bailey's Show, and it Is non- traveling In Europe,, and will not make tbe United States this season. Wallace's bill men are already Inside the borders of the State and may arrive In Des Moines at any time. It is presumed that the show will come to Dea Moines In September, probably after tbe wily William F. Cody and his band of whirling dervishes have pulled down their lithographs and left the Held clear. The regular advertisers for the Wallace people are not yet In Iowa. It is only the "opposition" men. To most people that term has no special significance: to showmen ev- erywhere It has a peculiar and a particular use. It means a gang or men who travel as regular passengers over all railway lines, and who are subject to telegraphic orders from the manager of advertising, who are sent out to oppose other shows. Showmen while extending the courtesies of the profes- sion to each other, stoop to almost anything in their methods of covering territory. Spies are constantly on the alert, and whenever the advertising man of a big show gets a sure tip that another big show has Its route sched- uled for a month- In advance he Immediately wires his "opposition" gang to cover this territory ahead of the regular advertising cars of the other show. The "opposition" has little baggage: It consists of five or six men and a boss; all the lithographs needed for a town- are sent-by express from the ad- vertising manager or from the printer. The first thing the "opposition" gang does when t arrives In a town Is to rent all of the regu- lar bill boards in tbe city, all the high fences, THE BILLBOARD all tbe sides ot old buildings and barns In consp.cuous places obtainable, the leases be- ing made conditional that no other show pa- per shall be allowed upon tbe boards until after their performance in the city. Then they scour the business houses and secure the large windows in the same manner. Cash Is pa.d for the big bill boards and available ad- vertising spaces for the larger posters; tickets only are given for the right to hang litho- graphs in the windows. If they are in town a day ahead of the other show they have ef- fected a "scoop," and the only way for the second show to "get in is to build boards of their own, or take what has been left over by the "opposition" gang, which is usually not very much. The "opposition" gang op- erates entirely separate from the regular ad- vertising cars of the show,» which go on their way working in a more thorough, manner, feeding out advertising wagons to bill the country, and they are, in their turn, beset by "opposition" gangs from other shows. Nicholasville, Ky., Notes. To the Editor of "The Billboard:" -Dear Sir—Buckskin Bill certainly made a ten-strike when he dived into Kentucky ter- rtory, which had hitherto been passed up by Buffalo Bill and Pawnee Bill. The show has made friends, at every stand, and has been repaid by a large patronage, and they deserve every cent that has passed into their hands. If there be other than a gentleman with the combination, I have failed to discover him. Their business methods are new and up to date. Merchants to whom bills are due are cot obliged to wait until 3 p.m. for their cash. The treasurer makes the rounds of the town each morning, and before the parade comes upon the street the city is squared of all indebtedness—an innovation in the show business. In arranging the programme, the management has confined itself to scenes west of the Rockies, and were not forced to go to Africa for freaks and to the Orient for curios to amuse the people. While Arabs, Cossacks, etc., will tend to make a more di- versified exhibition. Buckskin Bill's is as good and clean as the best. But just here we will offer a criticism. Tbe performance is thirty minutes too short, but while it lasts it-is good and instructive. Their tribe of Sioux are the best on- the road. Their concert and side attractions are likewise good. The com- pany had smooth sailing until Danville, a town of 4,000, was struck. There it was im- possible to procure a lot cheaper than $145. The town council wanted $50 for a parade. The Terrells would not pay it. The crowd in town was the largest in the history of the town. They became ind'gnant, and the way they went after that council was a caution, and a compromise was reached. But the show was amply repaid. Here let us add: If you have Danville on your route, "reC- l'ght" it. The admirers made by this show are many, and they will anxiously await its return. C. W. JELF. Showmen Fight. On July 25 the Gentry Dog and Pony Show No. 2 left one of their employes at Rhine- hart's Hospital and another in the city cala-' bcose at Ashland, Wis. When the canvas- men were busily engaged in packing up and swearing according to custom, James Galla- gher .and John Murphy reached an alterca- tion that developed out of an argument ou just how a certain piece of work should be done, and after nursing their anger for some time, finally decided to fight. In the row that ensued. Murphy, from the evidence taken, was getting the fullness of a grand beating, and to avoid further punishment stabbed his opponent to "the heart w'th a jack-knife. Gal- lagher fell bleeding and apparently mortally wounded, and fcr a t'me his chances for re- covery lacked bad. He was taken to Rhine- hart's HnsDital, where an examination reveal- ed a gash that extended to the membrane that surrounds the heart. Murphy was taken into custody and arraigned in court for assault with intent to kill. He pleaded not guilty, and was sent to the county jail to await his hearing. It is reported that Gallagher died on July 27. Bear Escapes. Bucyrus. O.. July 25.—(Special.)—Several bears took charge of a train yesterday on the Ohio Central and made things interesting for a t'me. An- extra train was put on to carry a show from Corning to Toledo. The car next to the caboose contained a couple "of cages of bears, together with some other wild ani- mals. Just after the train left Bucyrus one cf .the bears broke out of his cage and started on an exploring expedition. The conductor ran for the caboose, wtth the bear in hot pur- suit. The conductor won the race and slammed and locked the door of the caboose. The bear contented himself with climbing around over the other cages, which rocked frightfully, and aroused the other animals. Seeing that the chances were good for a whole train full of fighting wild animals, the train was sidetracked, and the cowboy of the aggregation armed himself with a lariat and started to lasso the bear. Tbe train was de- layed over an hour and messages began to accumulate asking the cause. The conductor gave the particulars, and said if headquarters would send up a dozen of the office men who usually take a month off every year to go hunttnc for bir game in the Northern woods he could give them enough game to last them several seasons. The bear was finally las- soed. Notes. Rained all day on Ringling's at Milwaukee, July 16, but the show d,d a good business at that. Michigan is treating Harrison Bros, very nicely. Monroeville and Elyria, O., were also very bind'. Rialdo, hand balancer and aerialist. closed with Reed's European Shows July 21 at Lovelacevllle, Ky. - O. E. Cannon has a dog and pony show out In the South. He recently showed Selina, Ala., to good business. One hundred and eighty-six railroad tickets were sold at Macksburg, O., to Marietta when Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show appeared there. Ed. F. Davis writes that he got the show home intact, that be has settled with his actors and musicians and that the circus will go out again next spring, but on a different scale. Pfeiffenberg's troubles are many. He took a punch out of a cowboy at Paris, Ky., and the cowboy took four shots at "Feif." The cowboy 1s in jail.and Mrs. Ffeiffenberg has left the show. The Elephant's Plank.—"Fellow citizens of the jungle," said the monkey," "various as our interests may be, can't we find some platform on which we may all stand?" "That's right," put in the elephant. "Let us denounce menageries!"—Puck. Sam Dawson writes as follows, viz.: "One cf the bill posters came in the other day from a railroad route up a little branch, road that led into the mountains. He said it was so wild and wooly that the landlord had a cur- rycomb hanging up in the washroom in place of a hair-brush." - Wm. H. Bullen, with the Nashville Stu- dents, wrltea that they have - six different kinds of stands, twenty kinds of lithographs, fifteen kinds of three-sheets, and the best agent on the road—W. E. Fuller. He says they recently out-billed Campbell Bros.' Shows in twenty-four consecutive towns, and knocked them out in every one. Where, Indeed?—"Whoever runs this paper," remarked the walrus, who had picked up an old copy of the New York Diurnal, dropped by a polar relief expedition, "is a lobster." "What's the matter?" asked his mate. "Why, he says: 'Under no circum- stances should you go into the water after a meal.' Where are we to get it, then?"— Philadelphia Press. Following is the roster cf the Kinnebrew Pavilion Vaudeville Show: Manager, Chas. Kinnebrew; assistant manager and treasurer, Leonie Kinnebrew; advance and programmer, Wm. H. Tibbils: soubrette. Etta Clarke: bal- lads and tickets, Miss- Mayme Kinnebrew; aerial and wire features, Mons. St. Pierre: Goldie Elsey, kid songs; picture machine, Geo, Elsie; canvas, Sam. Hellar. A showman giving his name as John Nelson visited Nashville, 111., a few days ago and tried to work some of the people on' ad- vances, but so far as can be learned secured nothing. He claimed to be agent for Bel- mont's Show, and his business was to make contracts with liverymen and butchers, and he traveled overland, driving from Nashville to Sparta. According to latest reports. Fake Agent Nelson managed to "touch" both the butcher and liveryman at Nashville for re- spectable sums. Manager "Tom" Perry says: "On July 17 the heavy wind that prevailed in Northwest- ern Ohio caught the big tent of Dr. H. D. Rucker's Repertoire. Vaudeville and Medi- c'ne Show, and in the twinkling of an eye, canvas, seats, the elaborately equipped stage was a wreck. Rain added to the general un- pleasantness, but all hands jumped in under .the doctor's directions, and although the ac- cident occurred at nearly z p. m. we had the tent up. the torn canvas mended, and rang up on time to a tent full of people in anothei rain storm. It was worth a mile of t'A boards, for, although the weather has been threatening every evening since, the tent, which seats 1.600, has been packed nightly and hundreds turned away. The show is giv- ing great satisfaction. It is a lively race that the business men and the interested spectators witnessed in Iowa City. la., recently. It was a "fight" be- tween the regular advertising car of one big show and the "opposition" gang of another. Buffalo Bill's regular car was in the city bill- ing the town and taking things easy, when the "opposition" gang of the Wallace shows swooped in on them and secured half the windows and several good sides of stores be- fore the Cody representatives realized what was up. The Cody men had already cinched the bill boards, but tbe Wallace people claimed the victory on everything else in sight, and were soon contracting for the erec- tion of .a mammoth bill board for their largif posters, by which' they hoped to outshine the {3 brilliant color work of the aggregation. 'Rough Rider" Jamaica, L. I., Jots. IK To the Editor of "The Billboard:" , Dear Sbv-The advance agent of the Rhodi Royal Show visited me on Thursday last ant ,- .engaged several feet of lumber for his ex BBS 1 * hibit on Long Island. He opens at Hemp I spf stead July 23 and will visit ten of our prin » If *'* cipal show towns. The Royal TShow la wel j'pft* known, being what was formerly known a ' Walter Main's Circus, which was sold at auc tion.- ','' ZZ* —"" »**—-■™ «»•»«*«, vi»i.mji.|| rati, rj» *.J *f\"*?lfj Aug. 17. CHAS. WOOlJ. % WM " (.' A if I uu._ , s - ;-'l Carl Schneider's new Uncle Tom's Cabii ij l« 181 v/ompany. will play under canvas in the prin k , ' S cipal Long Island towns, opening at Jamaica 'f 'il~fl Alio- 17 nva.o umr.,. -'filii.-.-*# Routes. AMERICAN AMUSEMENT CO—Hunting I ton, Ind., Aug. 3 to 5; Logansport, Ind., Aug I 7 and 8; Crown Point, Ind., Aug. 9 to 11. j WM BARNUM & BAILEY'S—Hanover. Ger j |§! many, Aug. 2 to 7; Bielefeld, Aug. 8; Osna f j& ft** Vis || lull" Is bruck. Aug. 9; Munster. Aug. 10. BUCKSKIN BILL'S WILD WEST—Hender . P.ji iJJ son. Ky., Aug. 1; Morganfield, Aug. 2; Ma ' ! ' '* ricn, Ky., Aug. 3; Princeton, Aug. 4; Me | £p''* tropolis. III., Aug. 6; Marion, Aug. 7; Pinck 3 W neyville, Aug. 8; Chester, Aug. 9; Sparta M Aug. 10; Nashville. Aug. 11. ;"i|| BUFFALO BILLS WILD WEST— Racim | Wis., Aug. 6; Manitowoc, Wis., Aug. Green Bay, Wis., Aug. 8; Rhineland, "W Aug. 9; Ashland, Wis., Aug. 10; Dulutt Minn., Aug. 11. FOREPAUGH-SBLLS—York, Neb., Aug. 1 fj Kearney, Aug- 3; Grand Island, Aug. 2; Has'|| tings, Aug: 4: ; |<jjp« GENTRY'S NO. 3—Waterville, Me.. Aug. lit?K * Showhegan, Aug. 2; Lewiston, Aug. 4. |ww GENTRY'S NO. 2—New York City, IndeflL HARRIS' NICKEL PLATE SHOWS—Vajllfe Wert, O., Aug. 1; Lima, O., Aug. 2; gidnej'flff? O., Aug. 3; Troy, O., Aug. 4; Dayton, 0"ff§i £ Aug. 6; Washington C. H., O., Aug. <t|&l M Greenfield. O., Aug. 9; Jackson, O., Aug. «lfe'»iH weiiston, o., Aug! u. ■'£#; Tr| PAWNEE BILL'S WILD WEST—Manlste. f|" J "^ Mich., Aug. 1; -Ludington, Mich.. Aug. i Hfe Traverse City, M1cfa., Aug. 3; Charlevoi; *S? Mich., Aug. 4: Holland, Mich., Aug. 6: BeiljS: ton Harbor, Miqh., Aug. 7; Niles, Mich.. AuiifSlfL, 8; N. Manchester, Indl, Aug. 9; LogansporS^M Ind., Aug. 10; Peru, Ind., Aug. 11. . fciSSirffl - RINGLING BROS.'—Sioux City. la., Au, 1: Norfolk. Neb.. Aug. 2; Central City, la Aug. 3; Lexington, la., Aug. 4. - : JOHN ROBINSON'S—Ft. Scott, Kan., Au! 6: Iola, Kan., Aug. 7; Garnett, la., Aug. $. Ottawa, Kan.. Aug. 9; Council Grove, Kari Aug. 10; Osage City, Kan., Aug. 11; Madlra;jL»»i»/; Kan., Aug. 13; Eldorado,' Kan., Aug. 14; NevE ton, Kan., Aug. 15; McPherson, Kan., Aug. if; RUCKER'S BIG SHOWS—Findlay, O., Ju'|3S 30 to Aug. 18. , . , ;|iit 3 SIG. SAUTELLE'S — Greenwich. ConrPlt i Aug. 1; Fort Cheater. N. Y.. Aug. 2: Ybnkei mm Aug. 3; Tarrytown, Aug. 4. §§1 SUN BROS.'—Summervllie, N. J., Aug. i|S Princeton,- N. J., Aug. 2. IfUl WALLACE SHOWS—Antigo, Wis., Aug. f *f] "■ Osbkosh. Aug. 2; Janesville, Aug. 3; Lajl« Geneva, Aug. 4: Sterling; 111., Aug. 6: Mittvi quoketa, la., Aug. 7: Clinton. Aug. 8: Dave'I-TCP port, Aug. 8; Iowa City, Aug. 10; NewtalI Aug. U. ' >.-- - - ■ ■ ( |jj WASHBURN'S—Rutland. Vt.; Aug. Wallihgford, Aug. 2; Manchester, Aug, 3 Aug. 1; Rockwood, Aug. 2. ":KSj§Jt WHITNEY SHOWS—Lake Odessa. Aug. Si' W Sunfield. Aug. 2; Mutltken, Aug. 3;-Grafifilfti I Ledge, Aug. 4. iBSBt-'mM WANTED 20 GOOD BILLPOSTERS -FOR THE- Address_ GREAT WALLACE SHOW For a Long Season South. \JU. E. FRANKLIN, General Agent, «. Mention Billboard in application. M 6 Wabash A venae, CHIC AGO. llJ|